| CASE SERIES AND LITERATURE REVIEW |
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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 204-209 |
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Syncope and COVID-19: Case series and literature review
Ibrahim A Alranini, Tarek S Kashour, Ahmed S Al-Hersi, Wael A Alqarawi
Department of Cardiac Sciences, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Ibrahim A Alranini
Department of Cardiac Sciences, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jnsm.jnsm_134_21
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COVID-19 infection can present with atypical symptoms such as syncope. We reported 2 patients who presented to our emergency department with syncope as a chief complaint. One patient did not have any other symptoms while the other patient developed severe pneumonia later during hospitalization. The cardiac workup including electrocardiogram, cardiac monitoring, and echocardiogram were unremarkable. Both patients were diagnosed with neurally mediated/reflex syncope secondary to COVID-19. No recurrence was reported during follow-up. We then performed a literature review and described previous cases focusing on clinical presentation and the likely mechanism of syncope.
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