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Published on: March 21, 2013
A patient with syncope, only "vagally" related to the heart
Z A Eldadah1, S S Najjar, R C Ziegelstein
1Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224-2780, USA.
Abstract:
Syncope due to atrioventricular block may occur as a result of a cardiac vasodepressor reflex. This article reports a case of syncope in a 58-year-old man with high-grade atrioventricular block documented by ambulatory ECG monitoring at home. What makes this case unusual is that the patient's principal diagnosis was noncardiac.
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