Noun: Adams-Stokes syndrome
- Recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat
"The patient's Adams-Stokes syndrome required immediate pacemaker implantation";
- heart block, Stokes-Adams syndrome, atrioventricular block
Type of: arhythmia, arrhythmia, cardiac arrhythmia
Encyclopedia: Adams-Stokes syndrome