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 ...

Background: Surgeons and nurses are exposed to orthostatic stress. Aims: To assess the lifetime incidence of syncopal and presyncopal events during surgery in operation room staff and reveal the ...

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 ...