Adams-Stokes attacks and corticosteroids.

Stokes-Adams attacks in pregnancy.

Case Report A 22-years-old woman was admitted to hospital on April 9, 1959 in the 18th week of her first pregnancy. She had been fit until six days before, when she developed lightheadedness, followed by flushing, and a throbbing occipital headache. At 7 p.m. on the day of admission, in bed, she began to have frequent sensations of lightheadedness, accompanied by throbbing occipital headache, a...

Stokes-adams Attacks Due to Toxoplasma Myocarditis.

When a physician is confronted with a patient suffering from heart failure of obscure oetiology, toxoplasmosis is one of the possible causes to be considered. The difficulties of diagnosis are considerable, and usually the elucidation of the case must rest on the indirect evidence of the complement fixation test (c.f.t.) and the Sabin-Feldman dye test. Therefore, unless the diagnosis is conside...

Stokes-Adams attacks with simultaneous auricular and ventricular standstill.

Prednisone in the Treatment of Adams-stokes Attacks.

Adams-Stokes attacks are seen most frequently in patients with heart block. They are usually due to a temporary cardiac arrest not infrequently occurring when an incomplete heart block becomes complete, although a number of other irregularities may precipitate unconsciousness in these patients (Parkinson, Papp, and Evans, 1941). They occasionally occur in patients with bradycardia from other ca...

[Treatment of stokes-adams syndrome].

概 要 Stokes-Adams症 候群はisogroterenol hydrochlorideを 中心 とす る薬 物療 法,種 々の蘇生術 お よ び電 気ペ ース メーカーの発達 に よ り治癒可能 の疾患 となつた.最 近著者 らが経験 した主 として徐 拍動 型 反復性Stokes-Adams症 候群を有す る7症 例の うち2例 は薬物療 法 に 終始 して死亡 し,5例 は薬 物 療 法に よ り数回 の危機 を脱 した後,植 込式電気 ペ ース メーカー装填 を行ない,全 例 日常生活 に復帰 し た.著 者 らの例 でも洞調律 時,高 率 に右脚 ブ ロ ックを認め,左 軸偏位 を とるものが 多い.血 清蛋 白は 一般に低 くα 2-グロブ リンの 増 加例がみ られ る.Stokes-Adams発 作に対す る救急処 置 と してisoproterenol hy...