When used on people with certain heart conditions, it causes a phenomenon known as the cardiac steal syndrome.

Steal syndrome may refer to:

Other important cardio-vascular conditions that can be manifested by syncope include subclavian steal syndrome and aortic stenosis.

In subclavian steal syndrome, blood is "stolen" from the Circle of Willis to preserve blood flow to the upper limb.

Reversal of steal syndrome following creation of arteriovenous fistula by banding with a Gore-Tex cuff: a new technique.

DRIL (Distal revascularization-interval ligation) is a surgical method of treating vascular access steal syndrome.

Revision Using Distal Inflow (RUDI) is a surgical treatment for Dialysis-associated Steal Syndrome.

Coronary steal (with its symptoms termed cardiac steal syndrome) is a phenomenon where an alteration of circulation patterns lead to a reduction in the blood directed to the coronary circulation.

In the case of large sacrococcygeal teratomas, a significant portion of the fetus' blood flow is redirected toward the teratoma (a phenomenon called steal syndrome), causing heart failure, or hydrops, of the fetus.

Coronary steal is also the mechanism in most drug-based cardiac stress tests; When a patient is incapable of doing physical activity they are given a vasodilator that produces a "cardiac steal syndrome" as a diagnostic procedure.

Minimally Invasive Limited Ligation Endoluminal-assisted Revision (MILLER) banding is a minimally invasive technique for banding dialysis accesses in cases of Dialysis-associated Steal Syndrome.

Subclavian steal syndrome results from a proximal stenosis (narrowing) of the subclavian artery, an artery supplied by the aorta which is also the same blood vessel that eventually feeds the Circle of Willis via the common carotid artery.

Coronary arteriovenous fistula between coronary artery and another cardiac chamber, like, the coronary sinus, right atrium, or right ventricle ; may cause steal syndrome under conditions like myocardial infarction and possible angina or ventricular arrhythmias, if the shunt is large in magnitude.

The complications are few, but if a fistula has a very high blood flow and the vasculature that supplies the rest of the limb is poor, a steal syndrome can occur, where blood entering the limb is drawn into the fistula and returned to the general circulation without entering the limb's capillaries.

In nephrology, vascular access steal syndrome or Dialysis-associated Steal Syndrome (DASS), also known less precisely as steal syndrome, refers to vascular insufficiency resulting from an arteriovenous fistula or synthetic vascular graft-AV fistula).