Intractable stokes adams attack with myriad of ventricular arrythmias masquerading acute myocarditis

Unrecognized paroxysmal ventricular standstill masquerading as epilepsy: a Stokes-Adams attack.

Recognition of cardiac syncope masquerading as epilepsy may be difficult in the Emergency Department. We report a middle-aged man with recent onset convulsions who posed a diagnostic puzzle before it was found that he had paroxysmal ventricular standstill with complete atrioventricular block: he made a complete recovery after temporary pacemaker insertion. The main lessons from this case were (...

Clinical commentary Unrecognized paroxysmal ventricular standstill masquerading as epilepsy: a Stokes-Adams attack

Recognition of cardiac syncope masquerading as epilepsy may be difficult in the Emergency Department. We report a middle-aged man with recent onset convulsions who posed a diagnostic puzzle before it was found that he had paroxysmal ventricular standstill with complete atrioventricular block: he made a complete recovery after temporary pacemaker insertion. The main lessons from this case were (...

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...

The Electrocardiogram of the Stokes-adams Attack.

Complete heart block with Stokes Adams attack from transient ventricular fibrillation.

TOKES Adams attacks with loss of consciousness due to a sudden decline in cardiac output usually occurs in patients with complete heart block. The precipitating event is ventricular asystole, ventricular flutter-fibrillation or a combination of both arrhythmias. Ventricular fibrillation may follow a period of asystole, or ventricular fibrillation may precede a period of asystole. Infrequently t...