• Orthostatic syncope refers to syncope resulting from a postural decrease in blood pressure, termed orthostatic hypotension. Orthostatic hypotension occurs...
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    rates of vasovagal syncope in the young adult population. Older adults are more likely to have orthostatic or cardiac syncope. Syncope affects about three...
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    patients with orthostatic vasovagal syncope. Circulation. 1997;96: 2509–2513. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.96.8.2509 Abboud FM. Neurocardiogenic syncope. N Engl J...
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    Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a condition characterized by an abnormally large increase in heart rate upon sitting up or standing...
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  • occasion produce marked orthostatic hypotension. Alcohol can potentiate orthostatic hypotension to the point of syncope. Orthostatic hypotension can also...
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  • Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is the development of symptoms when standing upright that are relieved when reclining. There are many types of orthostatic...
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  • Hair-grooming syncope may be misdiagnosed as epilepsy, but is better described as a "paroxysmal non-epileptic event". It may also be related to orthostatic hypotension...
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  • cardiac syncope (including long QT disorders, other cardiac arrhythmias, and structural cardiac disease), syncope due to standing (see orthostatic hypotension)...
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    autonomic failure in 1925. Patients usually present with orthostatic hypotension or syncope in midlife or later. In addition, genitourinary, thermoregulatory...
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  • or abdominal pain; with fever; with bleeding; or with syncope, dizziness or weakness. Orthostatic vital signs are not collected where spinal injury seems...
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