when Hering described the carotid sinus reflex. But it was Soma Weiss and James Baker who brought to it a clinical reality when, in 1933, they described the hypersensitive sinus, which seemed to ...

THE treatment of the carotid-sinus syndrome in the past has been difficult, nonspecific and unsatisfactory. We wish to report 52 cases in which irradiation was followed by complete remission of ...

Other neurally mediated reflex faints include carotid sinus syndrome, and situational faints such as those that may be triggered by blood draws, emotional upset, pain, micturition, defecation ...

The Bainbridge reflex (aka, atrial reflex) occurs when the heart rate increases in response to a rise in atrial pressure. This is a compensatory mechanism since increased right atrial pressures ...

In the absence of structural heart disease (including a normal ECG), syncope is most often of neurally mediated reflex origin or ... of tilt-table testing and carotid massage, although ...