Hypersensitive carotid sinus syndrome due to neurofibromatosis-1 and manifested by repeated episodes of syncope

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1571-1573

  Sutherland, Jessica A ^a   Stobie, Paul ^a   Swarup, Vijay ^a   Tierney, Sean P ^a   Lin, Albert C ^a   Burke, Martin C ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypersensitive carotid sinus; Neurofibromatosis 1; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OCCIPITAL BONE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; CAROTID SINUS; CAROTID STENOSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; SYNCOPE;

EID: 9344265180     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00680.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Weiss S, Baker JP. The carotid sinus reflex in health and disease: Its role in the causation of fainting and convulsions. Medicine 1933; 12:297-354.
2. Calkins H, Zipes DP. Hypotension and Syncope. In E. Braunwald, DP. Zipes, P. Libby, (ed.): Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 6th ed. St. Louis, W. B. Saunders Company, 2001, pp. 932-939.
3. Schnipper JL, Kapoor WN. Cardiac arrhythmias: Diagnostic evaluation and management of patients with syncope. Med Clin North Am 2001; 85:423-456.
4. Kapoor WN. Workup and management of patients with syncope. Med Clin North Am 1995; 79:1153-1170.
5. Ballantyne F, VanderArk CR, Holick M. Carotid sinus syncope and cervical lymphoma. Wis Med J 1975; 74:S91-S92.
6. Holmes FA, Glass JP, Ewer MS, et al. Syncope and hypotension due to carcinoma of the breast metastatic to the carotid sinus. Am J Med 1987; 82:1238-1241.
7. Frank JI, Ropper AH, Zuniga G. Vasodepressor carotid sinus syncope associated with a neck mass. Neurology 1992; 42:1194-1197.
8. Bauer CA, Miriam RI, Gartlan MG, et al. Carotid sinus syncope in head and neck cancer. Laryngoscope 1994; 104:497-505.
9. Hong AM, Pressley L, Stevens GN. Carotid sinus syndrome secondary to head and neck malignancy: Case report and literature review. Clin Oncol 2000; 12:409-412.
10. Nicholls S, Trim G, Hereford-Ashley P, et al. Pain in the neck. Lancet 2003; 361:1700.
11. Metheetrairut C, Brown DH. Glossopharyngeal neuralgia and syncope secondary to neck malignancy. J Otolaryngol 1993; 22:18-20.
12. Nakahira M, Nakatani H, Takeda T. Syncope as a sign of occult malignant recurrence in the retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal space: CT and MR imaging findings in four cases. Am Soc Neuroradiol 2002; 23:1257-1260.
13. Owen PJD, Lazarus JH, Morse RE. Unusual complications of thyroid carcinoma. Postgrad Med J 2003; 79:55-56.
14. Yasmeen T, Khan S, Patel SG, et al. Riedel's thyroiditis: Report of a case complicated by spontaneous hypoparathyroidism, recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, and Homer's syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002; 87:3543-3547.
15. Colman SD, Wallace MR. Neurofibromatosis type 1. Eur J Cancer 1994; 30A:1974-1981.
16. Lakkis MM, Tennekoon GI. Neurofibromatosis type 1: General overview. J Neurosci Res 2000; 62:755-763.
17. Gutmann DH. Recent insights into neurofibromatosis type 1: Clear genetic progress. Arch Neurol 1998; 55:778-780.
18. Ducatman BS, Scheithauer BW, Piepgras DG, et al. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. A clinicopathologic study of 120 cases. Cancer 1986; 57:2006-2021.
19. Schorry EK, Crawford AH, Egelhoff JC, et al. Thoracic tumors in children with neurofibromatosis-1. Am J Med Genet 1997; 74:533-537.
20. Aoki Y, Kodama M, Mezaki T, et al. von Recklinghausen Disease complicated by pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2001; 119:1606-1608.
21. Verma S, Ahmed S, Gudapati SB, et al. Arrhythmias in neurofibromatosis: A case report and review of the literature. Cardiology 2001; 95:167-169.
22. Linzer M, Yang EH, Estes NA 3rd, et al. Diagnosing syncope part 1 and part 2: Value of history, physical exam, and electrocardiography. Clinical efficacy assessment project of the American college of physicians. Ann Intern Med 1997; 126:989-996.