An Unusual Case of Defecation Syncope

Syncope is a common cause for emergency room visitations. The common attributable causes are cardiac or orthostatic factors in a majority of cases; however, situational syncope is a lesser known phenomenon and infrequently described in the literature. Here, we present an unusual case of a 55-year-ol...

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Autor principal: Tigga, Maureen P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6643707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31391761
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmh.JMH_2_19
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description Syncope is a common cause for emergency room visitations. The common attributable causes are cardiac or orthostatic factors in a majority of cases; however, situational syncope is a lesser known phenomenon and infrequently described in the literature. Here, we present an unusual case of a 55-year-old woman with recurrent hypotension and bradycardia related to defecation due to an unexpected cause.
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spelling pubmed-66437072019-08-07 An Unusual Case of Defecation Syncope Tigga, Maureen P. J Midlife Health Case Report Syncope is a common cause for emergency room visitations. The common attributable causes are cardiac or orthostatic factors in a majority of cases; however, situational syncope is a lesser known phenomenon and infrequently described in the literature. Here, we present an unusual case of a 55-year-old woman with recurrent hypotension and bradycardia related to defecation due to an unexpected cause. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6643707/ /pubmed/31391761 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmh.JMH_2_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Mid-life Health http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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