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Syncope, Carotid Sinus

Known as: TIGHT COLLAR SYNDROME, Syncopes, Carotid Sinus, CAROTID SINUS SYNCOPE 
An exaggerated response to carotid sinus baroreceptor stimulation resulting in syncope from transient diminished cerebral perfusion. [HPO:probinson]
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Cerebral and circulatory haemodynamics before vasovagal syncope induced by orthostatic stress.
Vasovagal syncope is usually described as a sudden and transient loss of consciousness that resolves spontaneously… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Value and limitations of noninvasive assessment of syncope.
1985
1985
Management of cardioinhibitory hypersensitive carotid sinus syncope with permanent cardiac pacing--a seventeen year prospective study.
Sudden and unannounced syncope due to increased vagal tone as manifested by hypersensitivity of the carotid sinus mechanism is… 
1979
1979
Carotid Sinus Syndrome: Treatment by Carotid Sinus Denervation
Hypersensitive carotid sinus is a rare cause of spontaneous syncopal attacks. It must be differentiated from the other more… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Permanent demand pacing for hypersensitive carotid sinus syndrome.
Ten patients with proved hypersensitivity of one or both carotid sinuses and with symptoms of recurrent lightheaded spells and… 
1959
1959
On the existence of the cerebral type carotid sinus syncope
Ix A RECENT PAPER, “On the Nonexistence of the So-called Cerebral Type of Carotid Sinus Syncope,” Gurdjian and associates1 commit… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Effect of Carotid Sinus Stimulation on the Electrocardiograms of Clinically Normal Individuals
The cardioinhibitory effects of carotid sinus stimulation were studied by electrocardiographic means in 40 clinically normal… 
1950
1950
The cardioinhibitory carotid sinus syndrome.
Excerpt Of interest for years as a readily demonstrable etiologic factor in certain cases of syncopal or convulsive attacks, the… 
1944
1944
VASODEPRESSOR AND CAROTID SINUS SYNCOPE: CLINICAL, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC AND ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS
Syncope, or fainting, is by definition a transient reaction, and only rarely does the physician have an opportunity to make… 
1942
1942
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM ACCOMPANYING HYPERACTIVE CAROTID SINUS REFLEX AND ORTHOSTATIC SYNCOPE
Since studies on the electrical activity of the cortex have shown that in sleep,1in epileptic seizures2and in cerebral… 
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