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Extractions: Arrhythmia Alliance was launched at the start of Arrhythmia Awareness Week. We see the Arrhythmia Alliance as the obvious onward development from the AAAW, to maintain momentum, and to bring together allied parties, large and small, professional and lay, to funnel their energies toward common arrhythmia goals together. Arrhythmia Awareness Week Arrhythmia Awareness Week is a campaign that aims to improve the quality of life for people living with Cardiac Arrhythmias. Barton Hill Advice Service Barton Hill Advice Service, based in Bristol, have produced two really helpful booklets which give clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to apply for Disability Living Allowance. Contact a Family Every day over sixty children in the UK are born or diagnosed with a serious disability and the vast majority of them are cared for at home. Contact a Family (CaF) is the only UK charity providing support and advice to parents whatever the medical condition of their child. Facilitate delivery of more integrated cardiac care across the Network area.
Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition - UserLogin Number of patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and/or neurallymediated Orthostatic intolerance; Postural tachycardia syndrome; http://www.jpgn.org/pt/re/jpgn/fulltext.00005176-200504000-00005.htm
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Cardiology In Review - UserLogin Neurally mediated syncope and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)are the two most frequent causes of syncope. In patients with severe symptoms http://www.cardiologyinreview.com/pt/re/cardiorev/fulltext.00045415-200111000-00
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Extractions: Contributing risk factors Recommendations Syncope (fainting) is a common although disturbing experience. It is the sudden transient loss of consciousness with loss of postural tone caused by impaired blood flow to the central nervous system . Recovery is usually spontaneous when lying down. Syncope may occur even while lying down or standing upright and under a wide variety of conditions. It may be due to medication, cardiac disease (usually arrhythmia ), or severe impairment of cardiac blood flow by mechanical pump failure or obstruction. It may be due to transient impairment of central nervous system function as in a transient ischemic attack TIA, but this is less common. Although convulsive like movements may occur during fainting, it is distinct from a seizure disorder. Cardiac syncope is often quite serious and should be regarded as life threatening. When specific cardiac disease is found, it is treated specifically. However, the large majority of exercise related syncope cases are non cardiogenic in origin, at least for children and adolescents. Approximately 90% of syncope in children is either neurocardiogenic (also known as vasovagal syncope) or unexplained. Often the unexplained variety is reclassified as neurocardiogenic once tilt table testing has been performed. Neurocardiogenic is the current term for fainting mediated through a combination of inappropriate vascular (blood vessel) and heart rate control. Almost all of neurocardiogenic syncope in children can be deemed vasovagal (vaso denoting widening of blood vessels, and vagal slowing of the heart rate through stimulation of the vagus nerve). On the other hand, adult syncope is much more likely to be cardiogenic, about 50% of the time. Since vasovagal syncope almost always occurs in the upright position, which may sometimes include sitting, it is regarded as a form of orthostatic intolerance.
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Extractions: The fact that women's hearts are wired differently from men's should come as no surprise. The development of every part of the body is determined genetically, and modified by the sex hormones. The fact that we develop so similarly should really surprise us. This is also true of the electrical system of the heart in women. The way that the heart works isthrough an electrical system that we can measure on the surface with the electrocardiogram (ECG). This detects the electrical activity of the top chambers of the heart, the atria, manifest by a p wave, followed by a sharp deflection, the QRS, which represents the electrical activity of the ventricles of the heart. Following the QRS, there is a recovery interval, marked on the ECG by a hump, and the distance between the beginning of the QRS and the end of this hump, the T wave, is called the QT interval. The electrical activity we see on the surface is created by the sequential, and sometimes simultaneous, activity of a number of channels in the muscle membranes of heart tissue to allow certain ions, such a sodium, calcium, potassium, and some chemicals, such as acetylcholine, and ATP (an energy molecule) to cross into or out of the cell. The structure of these channels is determined genetically, and to some degree, their genetic expression varies with gender. For example, in men, the QT interval is always shorter than it is in women. If the channels are the same chemicals, their activity is modified by factors related to gender. As children develop, the disparity becomes marked at around puberty. Genetic diseases, therefore, such as congenital long QT interval, become more marked in females with time, and it is not unusual to find congenital long QT syndrome as a cause of syncope and sudden death in young women, out of proportion to the incidence in young men and male children.
Extractions: Tips from Other Journals Previous Next Vasovagal Syncope and Related Disorders The management of patients in whom a primary abnormality in blood pressure regulation results in hypotension and loss of consciousness presents clinical challenges. The hypotension may be primary, or it may be secondary to a condition such as tachyarrhythmia or bradyarrhythmia. Vasovagal syncope describes this condition, as well as other conditions that are considered to be dysautonomic responses to upright posture, such as orthostatic hypotension and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Bloomfield and associates reviewed the pathophysiology of these two causes of syncope and developed an algorithm to guide diagnosis and treatment. see the accompanying figure on page 2212 FIGURE. Vasovagal syncope and related disorders: a suggested algorithm for the diagnosis and treatment of vasovagal syncope and related disorders. (POTS = postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; HR = heart rate; BP = blood pressure; OH = orthostatic hypotension; HTN = hypertension; SSRI = selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
Circulation -- Sign In Page Idiopathic postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome an attenuated form of acutepandysautonomia? Neurology. 1993; 43 132137.Abstract http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/111/13/1574
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Extractions: Blair P. Grubb, MD Sanford Kimmel, MD VOL 103 / NO 1 / JANUARY 1998 / POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE This page is best viewed with a browser that supports tables This is the fourth of four articles on clinical cardiac electrophysiology Preview : Tilt table testing has been used for more than 50 years to study the body's responses to various stimuli, but only recently has it become the "gold standard" for evaluation of symptoms of syncope. In this article, the authors discuss the expert consensus statement recently issued by the American College of Cardiology on when and how to evaluate patients with the technique. They also provide basic background information on syncope and summarize current understanding of neurocardiogenic (or vasovagal) syncope, which is one common type. S yncope, the transient loss of consciousness and postural tone, is common and produces tremendous anxiety among patients, their families, and treating physicians. The multitude of potential sources of the problem and the difficulty in determining an exact cause make evaluation of syncope a particularly challenging task. Over the last decade, there has been an enormous increase in knowledge concerning one common type of recurrent syncope: neurocardiogenic (or vasovagal). Syncope accounts for 3% of emergency department visits and up to 6% of hospital admissions annually (1). It may be the only warning sign before an episode of sudden cardiac death. Even if the cause of the syncope is benign, its consequences may not be. Falls during syncope can result in fractures of the hips, extremities, face, and skull, and episodes while driving can be extremely dangerous. Periods of sudden, unpredictable loss of consciousness can put a tremendous psychological burden on both patients and their families and create a level of functional impairment similar to that produced by chronic debilitating disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis (2).
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Extractions: Vol. 274 No. 12, September 27, 1995 Featured Link E-mail Alerts ARTICLE Article Options Send to a Friend Similar articles in this journal Literature Track Add to File Drawer Download to Citation Manager PubMed citation Articles in PubMed by Bou-Holaigah I Calkins H Articles that cite this article Contact me when this article is cited I. Bou-Holaigah, P. C. Rowe, J. Kan and H. Calkins Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md, USA. OBJECTIVETo compare the clinical symptoms and response evoked by upright tilt-table testing in healthy individuals and in a sample of those satisfying strict criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome. DESIGNCase-comparison study with mean (SD) follow-up of 24 (5) weeks.
050302 Translate this page The postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome current concepts in pathophysiologydiagnosis and management. J Interv Card Electrophysiol, 2001,59-16. http://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/qikan/periodical.Articles/zhek/zhek2005/0503/05030
Extractions: eTD Hompage Browse eTD's by Author Browse eTD's by Major Browse eTD's by Title ... Feedback Title: Study of baroreceptor sensitivity index in chronic fatigue syndrome Author: Donnelly, Diane L. Document Type: Thesis Department: Biomedical Engineering Committee Degree: Master of Science Major: Biomedical Engineering Advisory Committee: Rockland, Ronald H. Reisman, Stanley S. Quigley, Karen S. Thesis Date: 2003, August Keywords: Chronic fatigue syndrome Baroreceptor response Baroreflex sensitivity index (BRSI) Availability: Unrestricted Abstract: The sequence method was used to assess baroreflex function. Comparative time analyses were done of weighted BRSI values between groups as well as between lags within groups. Baroreflex effectiveness index, BEI, was also evaluated along with the total number of ramps and sequences within and between groups. Comparative time analysis provided a graphical representation of the behavior of the baroreflex during head-up tilt. Spikes in BRSI in the transitions between baseline and tilt and again between tilt and recovery were most noticeable for CFS-FM followed by CON-POTS and CFS-POTS. The CFS and CON groups were surprisingly similar in their behavior throughout the tilt. Differences between CON and CFS became graphically more apparent when evaluating BRSI by lag and calculating the percent change in sequences by lag. Slope of the weighted average for BRSI was calculated over a moving window of two-minute intervals. Based on this graph, slope does not appear to indicate a large difference between subject populations.
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