Cardiology · Cardiology / Cardiac electrophysiology
Adams–Stokes syndrome
also: Stokes–Adams attacks
Sudden loss of consciousness caused by transient asystole or ventricular arrhythmia in heart block.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Cardiac electrophysiology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: rare, elderly
- Gene(s) involved
- SCN1B, SCN5A
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Stokes–Adams attacks
Etiology & mechanism
Intermittent complete AV block or pauses.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (6)
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
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dizziness, pallor
1 shared
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pallor
1 shared
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pallor
1 shared
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dizziness
1 shared
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dizziness
1 shared
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pallor
1 shared
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pallor
1 shared
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pallor
1 shared
Donath–Landsteiner syndrome
pallor
1 shared
Evans syndrome
pallor
Shares genes with
2 shared
Brugada syndrome
SCN1B, SCN5A
1 shared
Doose syndrome
SCN1B
1 shared
Dravet syndrome
SCN1B
1 shared
Early repolarization syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Irritable bowel syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Long QT syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Sick sinus syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Sudden infant death syndrome
SCN5A
1 shared
Sudden infant death syndrome with cardiac cause
SCN5A
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