article on the 4 stages of POTS

[danelle]

Hi all, I am working on my reconsideration phase of the disability process and was lloking for an article I read on the 4 stages of POTS. Does anyone know where I can find it? If anyone knows of any other good articles or info that would be great too. I have been seraching the web as much as my body will let me and I have found a few good ones, but i could use more. I would really like to find that one if i could.

I see an attorney this afternoon for a consult. Wish me luck!

[Ernie]

Good luck Danelle,

Ernie

[briarrose]

I have a half a dozen binders full of information and articles. Can you give me a little more info so I can hunt for it?

[LoriN]

Are you talking about the "Grading Scale of Orthostatic Intolerance"? If so I have an article titled Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) by Phillip A. Low etc.....It has in Table 1 the grading scale of 0 - 4 . At the bottom of the page is the following:

From the Dept. of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

April, 1995 NEUROLOGY 45 (Suppl 5) S19

[danelle]

I think that is it. Would you mind sending me the link to the article? Thanks a bunch!!

[LoriN]

Danelle,

Sorry I don't have the link. The article was given to me by a doctor when my children became sick several years ago. You could probably get it through a hospital library, or on the net somehow. I know there is another article that states degrees of impairment such as mild, moderate, severe, etc. I had this article at one time, too, but can't find it. I think it was written by Blair Grubb but I'm not sure. I have 4 file boxes full of articles. Wish I could be of more help.

Lori

[pamyla]

I just checked and I have access (through school) to that article as well as the other 4 listed in that supplement issue.

I'd be happy to send you any of them, just let me know which one you're interested in. Or, if it's okay with Michelle I could post them (didn't want to upset any copyright issues, and they're also pretty long)

Pam

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1. Update on the evaluation, pathogenesis, and management of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension.

Low, Phillip A. MD[update On The Evaluation, Pathogenesis, And Management Of Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension: Introduction]

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pg. S4-S5

2. Orthostatic hypotension: Causes, mechanisms, and influencing factors.

Mathias, Christopher J. DPhil FRCP[update On The Evaluation, Pathogenesis, And Management Of Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension]

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pg. S6-S11

3. Neurally mediated syncope: Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.

Kaufmann, Horacio MD[update On The Evaluation, Pathogenesis, And Management Of Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension]

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pg. S12-S18

4. Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

Low, Phillip A. MD; Opfer-Gehrking, Tonette L.; Textor, Stephen C. MD; Benarroch, Eduardo E. MD DSci; Shen, Win-Kuang MD; Schondorf, Ronald MD PhD; Suarez, Guillermo A. MD; Rummans, Teresa A. MD[update On The Evaluation, Pathogenesis, And Management Of Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension]

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pg. S19-S25

5. Recent advances in the treatment of orthostatic hypotension.

Robertson, David MD; Davis, Thomas L. MD[update On The Evaluation, Pathogenesis, And Management Of Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension]