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Syncope

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Clinical features

Ask about when your patient last ate. a

Why?

  • Post-prandial hypotension occurs in a third of elderly patients - around 1% become symptomatic from this. a
 

Expiry date: June 2004
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Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   W N   Kapoor
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , B   Phillips , CJ   Wotton