Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series

Carotid body tumor (CBT) is paraganglioma and mainly found in the carotid bifurcation. The manifestations of the tumor are variable; in most cases, it presents as a non-symptomatic slow-growing mass, rarely compression of carotid body induces bradycardia and hypotension and repeated syncope, prolong...

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Autores principales: Beigi, Ali Akbar, Ashtari, Fereshteh, Salari, Mehri, Norouzi, Rasul
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914220
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author Beigi, Ali Akbar
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description Carotid body tumor (CBT) is paraganglioma and mainly found in the carotid bifurcation. The manifestations of the tumor are variable; in most cases, it presents as a non-symptomatic slow-growing mass, rarely compression of carotid body induces bradycardia and hypotension and repeated syncope, prolonged syncope can cause convulsion. Convulsive syncope occurred in 0.03% of patients with syncope. In this paper, we report three cases with CBT and convulsive syncope for which surgery was done and patients did not experience syncope again.
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spelling pubmed-37243782013-08-02 Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series Beigi, Ali Akbar Ashtari, Fereshteh Salari, Mehri Norouzi, Rasul J Res Med Sci Case Report Carotid body tumor (CBT) is paraganglioma and mainly found in the carotid bifurcation. The manifestations of the tumor are variable; in most cases, it presents as a non-symptomatic slow-growing mass, rarely compression of carotid body induces bradycardia and hypotension and repeated syncope, prolonged syncope can cause convulsion. Convulsive syncope occurred in 0.03% of patients with syncope. In this paper, we report three cases with CBT and convulsive syncope for which surgery was done and patients did not experience syncope again. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3724378/ /pubmed/23914220 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Research in Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Beigi, Ali Akbar
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Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series
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title_full Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series
title_fullStr Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series
title_full_unstemmed Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series
title_short Convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: Case series
title_sort convulsive syncope as presenting symptom of carotid body tumors: case series
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914220
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