| Look up drug side effects in the Physicians' Desk Reference and you will discover words like tinnitus, syncope, dyspnea, epistaxis and anosmia. |
| He was discharged the following afternoon with a presumptive diagnosis of vasovagal syncope, perhaps related to defecation. |
| Patients with a family history of arrhythmia, syncope, or sudden death also may be at higher risk. |
| Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking. |
| However, syncope, aborted cardiac arrest, and sudden death do continue to occur. |
| We describe how a recently defined arrhythmia, Brugada syndrome, caused syncope in three generations of one family. |
