View my collection, "Dysautonomia/POTS" from NCBI

Dysautonomia: What does it mean? What are the symptoms? Is it curable?

Dysautonomia is a medical term often used to describe a group of complex conditions that are caused by a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS regulates all of the unconscious functions of the body, including the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system, metabolic system, and endocrine system. Symptoms of dysautonomia may include: Tachycardia (extremely fast heart rate), bradycardia (slow heart rate), palpitations, chest pain, dangerously low blood pressure, wide swings/sudden drops in blood pressure, orthostatic intolerance (the inability to remain upright), excessive fatigue, exercise intolerance, dizziness, fainting/near fainting, gastrointestinal problems, nausea, insomnia, shortness of breath, anxiety, tremulousness, frequent urination, convulsions, cognitive impairment, visual blurring or tunneling, and migraines. It is a chronic disease and is not curable.

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS): (often referred to as just postural tachycardia syndrome or POTS) is a condition of dysautonomia, and more specifically, orthostatic intolerance, in which a change from the supine position to an upright position causes an abnormally large increase in heart rate, called tachycardia. This is often, but not always, accompanied by a fall in blood pressure.

The Plague

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Circumcision

An infant recently circumcised won't stop bleeding. What are the causes? What are the risks with circumcision? What is Christmas disease? Review the list below...really there is a Christmas disease.

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PubMed search tip: If you want to find an article in PubMed but don't have the full citation or a librarian handy. Use the link in the left hand navigation called "Single Citation Matcher". You can put in only the page number if you have it, or the year and words in the title. Trust me, sometimes it is magic.

Esophogeal Atresia

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Non-ketotic Hypoglycemia

Case Report: Hypoglycemic Coma in a Young Girl, Kuwait Medical Journal 2005

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PubMed search tip: If you use the "Details" tab after preforming a keyword search you will be shown how PubMed translated your search using automatic term mapping and search rules. For example, if you search the morning report topic "Non-ketotic Hypoglycemia" you will see this result when you view the details page,

non-ketotic[All Fields] AND ("hypoglycaemia"[All Fields] OR "hypoglycemia"[MeSH Terms] OR "hypoglycemia"[All Fields])

You will then have an idea what is a Medical Subject Heading and what is not. This may help you narrow your search or understand why you retrieved the resulting list of citations.