cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncope
Last reviewed 01/2018
Causes include:
- left ventricular outflow obstruction:
- aortic stenosis
- hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- pulmonary flow obstruction:
- pulmonary stenosis
- primary pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary embolism
- myocardial - MI with pump failure
- pericardial - cardiac tamponade
- atrial myxoma