Tag Adams-Stokes syndrome
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Stokes-Adams syndrome

Stokes-Adams syndrome is an abrupt, transient loss of consciousness due to a sudden but pronounced decrease in the cardiac output

Robert Adams

Robert Adams (1791–1875), Dublin physician, first described Adams–Stokes syndrome and pioneered clinical-pathological correlation in heart disease

William Stokes (1804–1878) 680

William Stokes (physician)

William Stokes (1804–1878) was a pioneering Irish physician in cardiopulmonary diagnosis, famed for Cheyne–Stokes respiration and bedside clinical teaching.