What's the difference between lipothymia and lipothymy?
Lipothymia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Mild headache occurred during 7 courses (4.2%) in 4 patients, hypotension during 5 courses (3%) in 3 patients and lipothymia in 2 courses (1.2%) in 2 patients.
(2) Electrophysiological exploration was carried out for syncope (13 cases), lipothymia with palpitations (11 cases) or without palpitations (8 cases), or for a stroke of unknown origin.
(3) A 65-yr-old alcoholic man with a history of calcific pancreatitis presented with massive hematemesis complicated by lipothymia.
(4) Possible mechanism producing bradycardia, hypotension and lipothymia after nitrates administration are considered.
(5) produced syncope or at least lipothymia) in 12 patients (24.5 per cent).
(6) The clinical profile is similar in both sexes apart from 7 of the 89 items: lipothymia, abnormal feelings of warmth, pseudo-contraction of the larynx, abnormalities of the exoskeleton, and digestive disorders are more frequent in women, while precordalgia is more often present in men.
(7) The study emphasizes the importance of carefull observation of patients receiving sublingual nitrates during acute myocardial infarction, and the rapid response of bradycardia, hypotension and lipothymia following nitrates administration, to a simple therapy, which avoids other potentially hazardous treatments.
(8) AM resulted to be required the most for arrhythmias and ischemic heart disease whereas atypical chest pain, palpitations and lipothymia events were considered to be the major reasons for a negative examination.
(9) Apart from the lone case of photosensitization observed with the combined treatment, only minor side-effects were encountered, including an episode of diarrhoea and a case of extrasystoles with the combination, and a case or nausea with lipothymia under cicletanine alone.
(10) The frequency of LAH was not higher in cases of a history of hypertension, angina pectoris, lipothymia or exercise-induced syncope.
(11) The treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is first and foremost symptomatic, its aim being to counteract dyspnea, angina pectoris, syncopes and lipothymias, palpitations.
(12) The following symptoms were selected as positive by the analysis: palpitations, nail and hairs abnormalities, headache, lipothymia; thermoregulation disorders and tremors were negatively related to the syndrome, while sleep disorders and asthenia emerged as positive in the logistic analysis but not significantly so.
(13) We insist about the following notions: contra-indications: epilepsy, papillary stasis, important ethylism, folliculitis in the lumbar punction area; preparation by intra-venous hydrocortisone and Primperan in two different syringes (to prevent lipothymia and vomiting); localisation by TV of the space L2-L3; cytology and albumin in the cerebrospinal fluid; localised X-rays on the suspected intervertebral disk.
(14) The present study has shown that almost half the examinations carried out (45.2%) were requested on the basis of what were defined as "general" symptoms (vertigo, lipothymia, migraine, etc.
(15) The results appear quite favorable particularly in relation to the functional manifestations and in regard to palpitations, atypical precordialgias, peripheral vascular spasms (Raynaud), muscular cramps, and lipothymias.
(16) The authors report on a patient with artificial ventricular pacemaker with hysteresis, who suffered from ventricular fibrillation known as "torsade de pointe" and ventricular flutter, often accompanied by lipothymias, with hypokalemia.
(17) Side effects (CHESS 84) were those generally described for tricyclic antidepressants (constipation, dry mouth, lipothymia, tremor).
(18) The initial tumour, revealed by lipothymias and progressive heart failure, had been diagnosed by TM-mode echocardiography.
(19) The elective indications for serial electrophysiologic study are: failure of empirical therapy; disabling and very frequent arrhythmias; arrhythmias provoking major disturbances (lipothymia, syncope, hypotension, shock); symptomatic WPW.