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Postural tachycardia syndrome—current experience and concepts
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Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) is a poorly understood but important cause of orthostatic intolerance resulting from cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction. PoTS is distinct from the syndromes of autonomic failure usually associated with orthostatic hypotension, such as pure autonomic failure and multiple system atrophy. Individuals affected by PoTS are mainly young (aged between 15 years and 40 years) and predominantly female. The symptoms--palpitations, dizziness and occasionally syncope--mainly occur when the patient is standing upright, and are often relieved by sitting or lying flat. Common stimuli in daily life, such as modest exertion, food ingestion and heat, are now recognized to be capable of exacerbating the symptoms. Onset of the syndrome can be linked to infection, trauma, surgery or stress. PoTS can be associated with various other disorders; in particular, joint hypermobility syndrome (also known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome hypermobility type, formerly termed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type III). This Review describes the characteristics and neuroepidemiology of PoTS, and outlines possible pathophysiological mechanisms of this syndrome, as well as current and investigational treatments.
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“Differences in connective tissue may be a mediating factor for both these associations, causing pooling of blood in lax peripheral vessels [as in some forms of PoTS (59)] and enhancing sensitivity to tissue stretch and damage.”
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“often expressed as postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS), a condition characterised by accelerated heart rate on standing, and other symptoms that overlap phenomenologically with anxiety.26”
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“Hypermobility is associated with dysautonomia,47 typically PoTS, symptoms of which have phenomenological overlap with anxiety.26”
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“it is known that both the interoceptive sensitivity in hypermobile individuals (and the dysautonomia in PoTS) extends beyond the cardiovascular system (Mathias et al., 2011).”
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“The onset of POTS may be precipitated by a typical immunological stressor such as viral syndrome (often upper respiratory or gastrointestinal), physical trauma (such as concussion), menarche, pregnancy, or surgery (Boris and Bernadzikowski, 2018; Low et al., 1995; Mathias et al., 2011; Sandroni et al., 1999; Thieben et al., 2007; Watari et al., 2018).”
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“In patients with joint hypermobility syndrome, a variant of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, the onset of POTS may be insidious and the symptoms may develop over years beginning with teenage [27].”
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“20,21 The PHQ-9 categorizes symptoms of depression as none (score: 0-4), mild (5-9), moderate (10-14), moderately severe (1519), and severe (20-27).”
BackgroundDroxidopa in the Treatment of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Ruzieh, M., Dasa, O., Pacenta, A., Karabin, B., & Grubb, B. (2017) · American Journal of Therapeutics · doi:10.1097/mjt.0000000000000468 · Cited by 42
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“25 The exact relationship between POTS and hEDS is still unclear.”
Moon, J., Kim, D.-Y., Lee, W.-J., Lee, H. S., Lim, J.-A., Kim, T.-J., Jun, J.-S., Park, B., Byun, J.-I., Sunwoo, J.-S., et al. (2018) · Neurotherapeutics · doi:10.1007/s13311-018-0612-9 · Cited by 40
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Postural tachycardia syndrome: multiple symptoms, but easily missed
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Mast cell activation disease and the modern epidemic of chronic inflammatory disease
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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypermobility type
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“severity and duration of pain symptoms; the degree of joint hypermobility and 499 instability; psychological dysfunction [15]; and concurrent conditions such as postural 500 tachycardia syndrome [28], dysautonomia [29] and gastro-intestinal dysfunction 501 [30]).”
BackgroundStructural brain abnormalities in postural tachycardia syndrome: A VBM-DARTEL study
Umeda, S., Harrison, N. A., Gray, M. A., Mathias, C. J., & Critchley, H. (2015) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2015.00034 · Cited by 36
“Eleven patients (9 female; mean age 32.2 years; range 21–50 years) with established diagnoses of PoTS (Freeman et al., 2011; Mathias et al., 2012) and 23 age-matched healthy controls (17 female; mean age 29.0 years; range 18–55 years) participated in this study.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSelf-citationHypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome and pregnancy
Karthikeyan, A., & Venkat-Raman, N. (2018) · Obstetric Medicine · doi:10.1177/1753495x18754577 · Cited by 37
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS): An Update for Clinical Practice
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Autoimmunoreactive IgGs from patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Wang, X.-L., Chai, Q., Charlesworth, M., Figueroa, J. J., Low, P., Shen, W., & Lee, H.-C. (2012) · PROTEOMICS - Clinical Applications · doi:10.1002/prca.201200049 · Cited by 34
“Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a disorder of unknown etiology but is an important cause of orthostatic intolerance resulting from cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction [5].”
BackgroundClinical challenges in the diagnosis and management of postural tachycardia syndrome
Jones, P., Shaw, B., & Raj, S. (2016) · Practical Neurology · doi:10.1136/practneurol-2016-001405 · Cited by 34
Williams, E. L., Raj, S. R., Schondorf, R., Shen, W.-K., Wieling, W., & Claydon, V. E. (2021) · Autonomic Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.autneu.2021.102906 · Cited by 36
“…and Hainsworth, 1998a; Cooper and Hainsworth, 2002), and this is not surprising considering the known higher susceptibility to orthostatic intolerance in females than males (Deveau et al., 2020; Protheroe et al., 2013; Hainsworth and Claydon, 2013; Mathias et al., 2011; Ruwald et al., 2012).”
BackgroundNeurovisceral phenotypes in the expression of psychiatric symptoms
Eccles, J., Owens, A. P., Mathias, C. J., Umeda, S., & Critchley, H. (2015) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2015.00004 · Cited by 37
“Below we discuss the relevance of three of these “neurovisceral phenotypes” (Joint Hypermobility, Postural Tachycardia Syndrome and Vasovagal Syncope) to psychiatric symptoms.”
InfluentialSelf-citationTransient loss of consciousness and syncope
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Lost among the trees? The autonomic nervous system and paediatrics
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Self-citationAbnormal gastric myoelectrical activity in postural tachycardia syndrome
Seligman, W. H., Low, D. A., Asahina, M., & Mathias, C. J. (2013) · Clinical Autonomic Research · doi:10.1007/s10286-012-0185-3 · Cited by 33
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Protheroe, C. L., Ravensbergen, H. J. C., Inskip, J. A., & Claydon, V. E. (2013) · Journal of Visualized Experiments · doi:10.3791/4315 · Cited by 33
Joint Hypermobility and Headache: Understanding the Glue That Binds the Two Together – Part 1
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“Dysautonomia frequently manifests in EDS-HT as variations of POTS.(51) In a study of adults with joint hypermobility, 21 of 27 hypermobile adults demonstrated variations of orthostatic intolerance, compared with 2 of 21 controls.”
ResultKirbiš, M., Grad, A., Meglič, B., & Bajrović, F. F. (2013) · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · Cited by 31
Fikree, A., Aziz, Q., & Sifrim, D. (2017) · Neurogastroenterology & Motility · doi:10.1111/nmo.13029 · Cited by 30
Is there a relationship between gluten sensitivity and postural tachycardia syndrome?
Penny, H. A., Aziz, I., Ferrar, M., Atkinson, J., Hoggard, N., Hadjivassiliou, M., West, J. N., & Sanders, D. S. (2016) · European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology · doi:10.1097/meg.0000000000000740 · Cited by 30
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Hypermobility Type -- GeneReviews(®)
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“Connective tissue abnormalities are also being considered in investigations, as an association with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome has been suggested.(2) In recently presented small case studies, an association between POTS and vascular compression syndromes such as median arcuate ligament syndrome and pelvic compression synd…”
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Postural Heart Rate Changes in Young Patients With Vasovagal Syncope
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“29, 30 Thus, the excessive tachycardia preceding hypotension and bradycardia is often part of the vasovagal response in young patients, as described here in our cohort of patients with VVS.”
BackgroundPrevalence of joint hypermobility syndromes in pediatric postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Boris, J. R., & Bernadzikowski, T. (2021) · Autonomic Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.autneu.2020.102770 · Cited by 27
Pediatric-Onset Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome in a Single Tertiary Care Center
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“Currently, the prevalence of POTS in adult patients is estimated to be 170 in 100 000, but the true prevalence is likely unknown secondary to under-recognition.(1,2) POTS patients are predominantly female at an estimated 3.”
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“, 1999), neuropathy, connective tissue laxity, alpha and beta adrenergic hyper-responsiveness (De Wandele et al., 2014; Mathias et al., 2011), as well as potentially pathogenic adrenergic, muscarinic and other neural autoantibodies (A.”
BackgroundA novel role for the extracellular matrix glycoprotein‐Tenascin‐X in gastric function
Aktar, R., Peiris, M., Fikree, A., Eaton, S., Kritas, S., Kentish, S. J., Araujo, E. J. A., Bacarin, C., Page, A. J., Voermans, N. C., et al. (2019) · The Journal of Physiology · doi:10.1113/jp277195 · Cited by 25
“The most common upper GI symptoms include bloating, reflux, disordered gastric emptying of a meal, nausea and indigestion (Castori et al. 2010; Mathias et al. 2012; Fikree et al. 2014).”
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“Namely, OH is a result of inadequate return of blood from the lower extremities and splanchnic circulation due to impaired vasoconstriction [16].”
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“Now, it is known that, in association with structural and “primary” functional heart anomalies, JHS/EDS patients may also present postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome [17].”
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“Symptoms include dizziness and palpitations when upright; some have orthostatic headache, fatigue, bladder and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms (11).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mathias, C. J., Low, D. A., Iodice, V., Owens, A. P., Kirbis, M., & Grahame, R.
- Affiliations
- St Mary's Hospital (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mathias, Christopher J.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neurology
- Published
- 2011-12-06
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 22-34
- ISSN
- 1759-4758 (ISSN-L)
- 1759-4766
- OpenAlex
- W2023404533
- Cited by
- 251
- References
- 114
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- FWCI
- 3.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Neurology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Keywords
- postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, orthostatic intolerance, cardiac autonomic dysfunction, pathophysiology, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome hypermobility type, joint hypermobility syndrome, syncope, palpitations, dizziness, autonomic failure, multiple system atrophy, orthostatic hypotension, neuroepidemiology, treatment
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
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