Before POTS was called POTS

[Sarah Tee]

I found this article via the reference list in a later article. The authors of the later article say that the patients described would now be considered to have POTS.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3511818/

I wonder why they did volume expansion with IV albumin rather than IV saline. (Unfortunately I don’t see the full text of the article available anywhere without paying.)

 

[Sarah Tee]

Interestingly, although the authors noted and documented orthostatic tachycardia in the 11 patients, they don’t mention it in the final descriptive sentence of the abstract:

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These observations outline a syndrome of marked idiopathic hypovolemia with symptomatic labile hypertension and intolerance to head-up tilt, alleviated by volume expansion.

If they had come up with a snappy name, it might not even have mentioned tachycardia!

I wish I could read the whole paper.