syndrome de stokes-adams
1Stokes Adams attack — Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent pulse resulting in syncope (fainting) with or without convulsions. In this condition, the normal heartbeat passing from the upper chambers… …
2Stokes-Adams syndrome — Stokes Ad·ams syndrome .stōks ad əmz n fainting and convulsions induced by complete heart block with a pulse rate of 40 beats per minute or less called also Adams Stokes attack, Adams Stokes disease, Adams Stokes syndrome, Stokes Ad …
3Stokes-Adams syndrome — noun recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat • Syn: ↑heart block, ↑Adams Stokes syndrome, ↑atrioventricular block • Hypernyms: ↑cardiac arrhythmia, ↑arrhythmia * * *… …
4Stokes-Adams syndrome — /stohks ad euhmz/, Med. unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures. Also, Stokes Adams disease, Adams Stokes syndrome,… …
5Stokes-Adams attack syndrome (syncope) — Stokes Ad·ams attack, syndrome (syncope) (stōksґ adґəmz) [W. Stokes; Robert Adams, Irish physician, 1791–1875] see Adams Stokes attack, under attack and Adams Stokes syndrome, under syndrome …
6Stokes-Adams syndrome — Adams Stokes syndrome attacks of temporary loss of consciousness (syncope) that occur when blood flow ceases due to severe bradycardia. This syndrome may complicate heart block. It is treated by means of a battery operated pacemaker [Stokes… …
7Stokes-Adams syncope — Adams Stokes syndrome …
8Adams-Stokes syndrome — n STOKES ADAMS SYNDROME * * * see Stokes Adams syndrome * * * episodic cardiac arrest and syncope due to failure of normal and escape pacemakers, with or without ventricular fibrillation; it is the principal clinical manifestation of severe heart …
9Adams-Stokes disease — Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent pulse resulting in syncope (fainting) with or without convulsions. In this condition, the normal heartbeat passing from the upper chambers… …
10Adams-Stokes attack — n STOKES ADAMS SYNDROME R. Adams see STOKES ADAMS SYNDROME J. Stokes see CHEYNE STOKES RESPIRATION * * * an episode of syncope in Adams Stokes syndrome …