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Intern Med
; 51(8): 891-3, 2012.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22504245
ABSTRACT
Neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS) is a common clinical entity. Most of these patients are managed medically by internists and general practitioners. Though NCS is frequently a benign disease, a malignant form of this disorder with episodes of prolonged cardioinhibition culminating in asystole is described. Here, we describe a 52-year-old woman who had such a life threatening malignant form of arrhythmia during a routine colonoscopy and review the literature of similar cases.