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Europace Advance Access originally published online on February 29, 2008
Europace 2008 10(4):486-488; doi:10.1093/europace/eun022
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

SYNCOPE: THE ROLE OF SYNCOPE UNIT

Edward P. Sharpey-Schafer was right: evidence for systemic vasodilatation as a mechanism of hypotension in cough syncope

C. T. Paul Krediet* and Wouter Wieling

Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, F4-222, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cough syncope typically occurs in middle aged and senior, muscularly built males with a history of chronic obstructive lung disease. Originally, cough syncope was thought to be a form of epilepsy and only in the 1940s it was recognized to be of syncopal nature. The circulatory pathophysiology is, however, still not fully understood. We present data on two cough syncope patients in whom we documented the beat-to-beat changes in cardiac output and total peripheral resistance during cough syncope using pulse wave analysis. Our results give support to Edward P. Sharpey-Schafer's hypothesis that a decrease of total peripheral resistance plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of cough syncope. Systematic studies are needed to confirm this mechanism in larger series of patients.

Key Words: Situational syncope, Cardiac output, Total peripheral resistance, Sneezing, Modelflow, Smoking, COPD

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 20 5669111; fax: +31 20 6919658. E-mail address: c.t.krediet{at}amc.uva.nl

Manuscript submitted 27 June 2007. Accepted after revision 12 January 2008.


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