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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...