Sarah Hall is a midwife from Great Britain who, at 39, began experiencing dizziness and fainting when eating.
Over time her condition worsened and by the age of 48 she was losing consciousness in front of her 12-year-old children. After using a monitor, doctors at Hammersmith Hospital in London discovered that her heart stopped for up to a minute when swallowing due to cardioinhibitory swallow syncope, a disease with fewer than 150 cases worldwide.
To avoid a pacemaker, the woman took part in a cardioneural ablation trial funded by the British Heart Foundation and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, managing to recover completely at the age of 50.
