Stokes-Adams disease

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See Adams-Stokes syndrome.

Stokes-Adams disease [stōks´ ad´amz]

a condition due to heart block and marked by slow or absent pulse, vertigo, syncope, and sometimes convulsions and Cheyne-Stokes respiration; called also Adams-Stokes disease.

Stokes-Adams disease

a condition due to cerebral ischemia, marked by sudden attacks of unconsciousness, with or without convulsions; associated with heart block or ventricular tachycardias. Called also Stokes-Adams attack, syndrome or syncope or Adams-Stokes syndrome.

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