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A 38-Year-Old Man With Obesity, Intermittent Tachycardia, and One Episode of Syncope.

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A 38-year-old man with history of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity was referred to the electrophysiology clinic for evaluation of infrequent palpitations and remote history of syncope. The patient described a sensation of racing of the heart, which lasted about 30 min to 1 h and

Syncope secondary to obesity?

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The frequency of obesity is increasing worldwide. The relationship between obesity and mortality is known. Bariatric surgery is well established in the treatment of morbid obesity to reduce weight permanently. Bariatric procedures are effective and influencing associated comorbidities. Adjustable

Dizziness and near syncope due to sinus bradycardia and sinoatrial block associated with obesity and daytime tiredness. A clear indication for pacemaker implantation?

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BACKGROUND The symptomatic sick sinus syndrome presents a classic indication for the implantation of a dual-chamber pacemaker according to the current national and international guidelines. However, in cases where dizziness and near syncope due to a sinus node dysfunction are found together with

Hemoptysis, cough, and syncope in an obese woman with a prosthetic valve.

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A rare cause of syncope: cough.

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BACKGROUND Syncope is a transient loss of consciousness, associated with loss of postural tone, with spontaneous return to baseline neurologic function. Syncope is a common complaint in the emergency department. OBJECTIVE Cough syncope occurs immediately after coughing. Cough syncope rapidly

Laugh syncope as a rare sub-type of the situational syncopes: a case report.

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BACKGROUND Laughter is a good medicine; it enhances cardiovascular health and the immune system. What happens, however, if a person laughs too much or the laughter becomes out of control? Laughter-induced syncope is rare and likely goes unrecognized by many health care providers. It is thought to be

[Cough-syncope syndrome].

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The paper is concerned with pathogenetic mechanisms of cough syncope, its diagnosis, evaluation of working ability in this disease. Obesity plays a substantial role in the onset of cough syncope. The severity of pulmonary insufficiency or hypotonic dyskinesia of the tracheobronchial free are not

Obesity paradox in heart failure patients - Female gender characteristics-KAMC-single center experience.

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UNASSIGNED The correlation between low body mass index (BMI) and congestive heart failure (obesity paradox) has been described in the literature; However, the association between BMI and clinical outcome measures is not well characterized. Little is known about CHF in the Middle Eastern female

Resolution of syncope with treatment of sleep apnea.

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Sleep apnea is a common disorder associated with obesity and related health problems. Although treatment of sleep apnea may relieve some autonomic symptoms, it is currently unknown whether treatment of sleep apnea is specifically associated with the resolution of orthostatism and syncope. Herein we

[An unusual picture of insulinoma in type-2 diabetes mellitus and morbid obesity].

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METHODS Marked hyperinsulinism was demonstrated in the course of an oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT) in a 63-year-old woman with severe obesity (height 1.59 m, body weight 123 kg, body-mass index 46.4 kg/m2). The diabetic metabolic state, first diagnosed 12 years ago, had been replaced by a low

Cough syncope misinterpreted as epileptic seizure.

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Cough syncopes are rare but may be one of the cause of sudden loss of consciousness. We recorded under video-EEG monitoring a typical syncope triggered by voluntary coughing (video) and Valsava maneuvre in a patient referred for the diagnosis of generalized tonic-clonic seizures. There were no signs

Cough syncope.

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Loss of consciousness following cough was first described in 1876 as "laryngeal vertigo" Since then, several hundred cases of what is now most commonly termed cough syncope have been reported, often in association with various medical conditions. Some early authors assumed this entity to be a form

[Calcified amorpheus tumour of the heart as the cause of near syncope].

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Calcified amorphoeus tumour of the heart (cardiac CAT) is a rare non-neoplastic tumour of the heart. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of cardiac CAT in Scandinavia. The patient was a 55-year-old woman with obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, a history of smoking, and a

Atrial fibrillation in patients admitted to coronary care units in western Sweden - focus on obesity and lipotoxicity.

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BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of arrhythmia in humans and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Obesity and diabetes have been linked to myocardial lipotoxicity - a condition where the heart accumulates and produces toxic lipid species. We hypothesized

Diabetes mellitus-associated diffuse autonomic dysfunction causing debilitating hypotension manifested after rapid weight loss in a morbidly obese patient: case report and review of the literature.

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The association between weight and blood pressure is well established, especially the paradigm of obesity-related hypertension. The relationship between diffuse autonomic dysfunction and orthostatic hypotension in patients with long-term diabetes mellitus is also well known. We report on a

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