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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Causes
Common Causes
- Alcohol abuse
- Common fainting spell (vasovagal syncope)
- Dehydration due to a wide variety of causes including diarrhea and diuretics
- Drugs including opiates, anxiolytics, sedatives, barbiturates
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypotension
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Addison's Disease
- Adriamycin
- Alpha-blockers
- Alcohol
- Anemia
- Antiarrythmics
- Antihypertensives
- Anxiety
- Aortic Stenosis
- Aortic Dissection
- Arteriosclerosis of the carotid arteries
- Arteriosclerosis of cerebral vessels
- Arrhythmia
- Autonomic insufficiency
- Barbiturates
- Beta blockers
- Bradyarrhythmia
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Cardiomyopathy
- Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Cough
- Cerebrovascular accident or stroke
- Defecation
- Dehydration
- Diarrhea
- Digitalis
- Diuretics
- Heart failure
- Hydralazine
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypoxia
- Hypovolemia
- Hyperbradykininemia
- Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Hyperventilation
- Hysteria
- Methamphetamine
- Micturition
- Migrane
- Myocarditis
- Myocardial infarction
- Nitrates
- Opiates
- Orthostatic hypotension
- Pacemaker malfunction
- Phenothiazines
- Pulmonary embolism
- Reduced pulmonary artery flow
- Sedatives
- Seizures
- Sick sinus disease
- Situational syncope
- Somatization disorder
- Stokes-Adams attack
- Subclavian steal syndrome
- Sympathectomy
- Tacharrhythmia
- Takayasu's arteritis
- Transient ischemic attack
- Trauma
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Vasovagal syncope
- Valsalva maneuver
- Valve thrombus
- Valvular disease
- Ventricular tachycardia