POTS Research and Studies

This is a page full of links to research and studies dealing with POTS.  Some of them are full of really good information which can be used to bring to your doctors or to do further research on your own.   I am always adding new links, so if you have a link you find interesting please let me know in the comments!  

Learning new things is the only way we will find real answers to our issues.

• How Mestinon Works and perhaps heavy metal poisoning is the root cause?
   
• Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibition as a Human Model of Orthostatic Intolerance
  
  
• Altered Sympathetic Nervous Reactivity and Norepinephrine Transporter Expression in Patients with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

• Epigenetic Modification of the Norepinephrine Transporter Gene in POTS
   
• Norepinephrine Transporter - Deficient Mice Exhibit Excessive Tachycardia and Elevated Blood Pressure With Wakefulness and Activity 

• Effects of methylmercury on brain of Acetylcholine concentration and turnover (1980)

• Exercise performance in adolescents with autonomic dysfunction. (Jan 2011)

• Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome following Lyme disease. (2011)

• Abnormalities of angiotensin regulation in postural tachycardia syndrome. (Feb 15, 2011)

• Quality of Life in Patients With Postural Tachycardia Syndrome 

• New onset postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome following ablation of AV node reentrant tachycardia. (Oct 2010)

• The Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS): Pathophysiology, Diagnosis & Management

• Orthostatic intolerance and gastrointestinal motility in adolescents with nausea and abdominal pain.

• Gastrointestinal symptoms associated with orthostatic intolerance.

• New-onset orthostatic intolerance following bariatric surgery.

• Renin-aldosterone paradox and perturbed blood volume regulation underlying postural tachycardia syndrome.

• Hypovolemia in Syncope and Orthostatic Intolerance Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System

• The Causes of Postural Cardiovascular Disorders

• Cardiac Origins of the Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome