When your brain doesn’t get enough oxygen, you may experience lightheadedness and weakness, as if you’re going to faint. If you don’t, that’s a presyncope. If you do faint, that’s called syncope.

When a person has fainting symptoms but does not faint, it is known as presyncope. Presyncope is the stage before fainting, which can make someone feel lightheaded, weak, warm, sweaty, or nauseous.

Patients with presyncope and those with syncope in the ED have similar 30‑day serious cardiac outcomes, although patients ...

The workup of a patient with presyncope or syncope is directed primarily by the presence or absence of underlying heart disease and any clinical clues one is able to obtain from the initial history ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO – For patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a history of presyncope and syncope worsened the ...

We report a case of Gitelman's syndrome in a patient presenting with presyncope coincident with long runs of ventricular tachycardia at 230 beats per minute that was decidedly malignant. An otherwise ...

The different types of dizziness can be differentiated based on clinical symptoms and tests conducted on the patients. Dizziness is a common symptom for which a person visits a doctor. Balance is ...

Presyncope coupled with an enlarged spleen suggests infection A 69-year-old woman presents with night sweats, dizziness, fatigue and chronic pain in the upper abdomen. Mrs. C is a 69-year-old white ...

HealthDay News — Drinking water before vaccination does not prevent presyncope in adolescents after vaccination, according to a study published online October 23 in Pediatrics. Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with recurrent vasovagal syncope, yoga as an adjunctive therapy was superior to standard therapy ...

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands—In patients with sinus node dysfunction treated with dual-chamber pacemakers, minimizing atrial pacing doesn’t lower the likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation (AF) ...

Given the patient’s abdominal pain, she was evaluated sonographically as well. It was normal except for a 2-cm ovoid soft-tissue nodule anterior to the head of the pancreas. Thereafter, she was sent ...