Sitcom syncope: A case series and literature RE of Gelastic (laughter-induced) syncope

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 137-144

  Thiagarajah, Prashan H ^a   Finkielstein, Dennis ^b   Granato, Jerome E ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gelastic syncope; Laughter induced syncope; Neurally mediated syncope; Neurocardiogenic syncope; Situational syncope; Vasodepressor syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GELASTIC SYNCOPE; HEART RATE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROVOCATION TEST; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TILT TABLE TEST; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 79952200219     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2010.11.2231     Document Type: Article

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