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.

If you’ve ever felt dizzy, lightheaded, or like you were about to faint, but you didn’t lose consciousness, you may have experienced presyncope. It can be caused by many conditions, including heart ...

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 ...

Adults aged 40 years or older presenting to the emergency department (ED) with presyncope (near-fainting) or syncope (fainting) had similar rates of 30-day serious cardiac outcomes (5.2% vs 4.7%), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...