THE present emergency has provided an unusually abundant opportunity for the study of syncope, or fainting, in blood donors. Although not in itself serious, fainting results in loss of time to the ...

Regular practice of a specific yoga maneuver appears to reduce susceptibility to reflex vasovagal syncope, a new study suggests. The tadasana exercise — a movement-based contemplative practice that ...

WASHINGTON, DC — New research suggests a novel pacing program, known as closed-loop stimulation, reduces recurrences in patients suffering from refractory, recurrent cardioinhibitory reflex vasovagal ...

Patients commonly present with syncope at emergency departments and other facilities for urgent care. Syncope is understood by physicians to be a transient, self-terminating period of cerebral ...

New syncope guidelines released this week by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) boost certain recommendations and demote others, but according to members of the writing group, they represent the ...

INTEREST in syncope of circulatory origin was stimulated by publication in 1935 of Weiss's 1 monograph describing various clinical syndromes. Subsequently, the mechanisms of some types of syncope have ...