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Cardiac arrest caused by trigeminal neuralgia

M H Gottesman1, B Ibrahim, A S Elfenbein

  • 1Division of Neurology, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.

Headache
|June 1, 1996
PubMed
Summary

Trigeminal neuralgia, a facial pain condition, can manifest unusually with fainting spells and cardiac arrest. Pacemaker implantation effectively prevented these syncope episodes, even when facial pain recurred.

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