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.

Ad·ams-Stokes syn·drome

(a'dămz stōks),

a syndrome characterized by slow or absent pulse, vertigo, syncope, convulsions, and sometimes Cheyne-Stokes respiration; usually results from advanced AV block or sick sinus syndrome.

Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes disease, Morgagni disease, Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome, Spens syndrome, Stokes-Adams disease, Stokes-Adams syndrome

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Adams,

Robert, Irish physician, 1791-1875.

Adams-Stokes disease - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Adams-Stokes syncope - syncope due to complete atrioventricular block.

Adams-Stokes syndrome - characterized by slow or absent pulse, vertigo, syncope, convulsions, and sometimes Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes disease; Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome; Morgagni disease; Spens syndrome; Stokes-Adams disease; Stokes-Adams syndrome

Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Stokes-Adams disease - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Stokes-Adams syndrome - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Stokes,

William, Irish physician, 1804-1878.

Adams-Stokes disease - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Adams-Stokes syncope - see under Adams, Robert

Adams-Stokes syndrome - see under Adams, Robert

Cheyne-Stokes breathing - Synonym(s): Cheyne-Stokes respiration

Cheyne-Stokes psychosis - see under Cheyne

Cheyne-Stokes respiration - see under Cheyne

Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Stokes law - a muscle lying above an inflamed mucous or serous membrane is frequently the seat of paralysis.

Stokes-Adams disease - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome

Stokes-Adams syndrome - Synonym(s): Adams-Stokes syndrome