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Disease Information for Sick sinus syndrome
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Bradycardia of about 30 beats/min
- Cardiac Symptoms/Signs
- Episodic pulmonary edema
- Fast Constant Heart Rate 150-170
- Heart 'spells'
- Palpitations/Skipped beats
- Presyncope
- Slow pulse/Bradycardia
- Tachycardia/Fast heart rate
- Drop attacks
- Collapse/Prostration
- Episodic symptoms/events
- Spells/Episodes of weakness
- Disease Progression
- Course/Attacks Episodic Spells
- Course/Chronic disorder
- Course/Chronic only
- Course/Paroxysmal
- Demographics & Risk Factors
- Established Disease Population
- Patient/Angina
- Patient/Arteriosclerotic heart disease
- Patient/Atrial fibrillation
- Patient/Atrial fibrillation poor rate control
- Population Group
- Aged Adult
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Adult Aged Only
- Population/Adult/all
- Population/Elderly Aged
- Population/Seventies Adult
- Population/Sixties-adult
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Electrodiagnosis
- Electrophysiologic/cardiac conduction study abnormal
- EKG (ECG)
- EKG/Prolonged PR Interval (ECG)
- EKG/AV Nodal Block/Complete
- EKG/Conduction defect findings (ECG)
- EKG/Sinus bradycardia (ECG)
- EKG/Sinus pause (ECG)
- EKG/Sinus tachycardia (ECG)
- EKG/Changes/abnormalities (ECG)
- Associated Diseases & Rule outs
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Arterial Occlusion
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial flutter
- AV node lesion/infiltrate
- Brady-arrhythmia
- Bradyarrhythmias
- Cardiac conduction defects
- Cardiogenic syncope
- Cerebral embolism
- Death/Unanticipated
- Embolism
- Embolism, systemic/arterial
- Heart block, complete
- Heart block, Mobitz type II
- Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
- Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia
- Renal embolism
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Sinus bradycardia
- Sinus tachycardia
- Stokes-Adams attacks
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Syncope/Fainting
- Wenckebach/Mobitz I heart block
- Cardiac death, sudden
- Cardioembolism
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
- Class
- CLASS/Cardiovascular (category)
- CLASS/Heart disorder (ex)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Gene locus 4q25-q27
- Pathophysiology/Gene locus Chromosome 5
- Pathophysiology/Gene Locus Identified/OMIM database
- Pathophysiology/Gene locus/Chromosome 4
- Pathophysiology/Genomic indentifiers (polymorphism/snip/mutations)
- Pathophysiology/Arterial Occlusion
- Pathophysiology/Cardiac embolic source
- Process
- PROCESS/Use/Age/atrophic disorder (category)
- PROCESS/Vegetative-Autonomic/Endocrine (category)
- Synonyms
- Synonym
- Sick sinus syndrome, Sick sinus syndrome (disorder), Sick Sinus Syndromes, Sinus Syndrome Sick, Sinus Syndromes Sick, Syndrome Sick Sinus, Syndromes Sick Sinus, Synonym/Bradycardia-tachycardia syndrome, Synonym/Inadequate sinus mechanism, Synonym/Sinatrial syncope syndrome
- Treatment
- Drug Therapy - Contraindication
- RX/Adenosine (Adenocard)
- RX/Verapamil (Calan)
- Drug Therapy - Indication
- SX/Pacemaker insertion
- Definition
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Dysfunction of the sinoatrial node manifested by persistent sinus bradycardia, sinus arrest, sinoatrial exit block, chronic atrial fibrillation and inability of the heart to resume sinus rhythm following cardioversion for atrial fibrillation.
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