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Other Medications: Desmopressin, Pyridostigmine, Erythropoietin and SSRIs

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Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

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Most therapeutic options for PoTS are covered in other chapters on pharmacological approaches in this text book; however patients with PoTS may continue to be symptomatic despite being treated with a combination of volume expander (fludrocortisone) and vasoconstrictor (midodrine). Here consideration is limited to four additional classes of therapy which may be of benefit when conventional approaches have failed:

  • Anti-diuretic treatment (Desmopressin)

  • Acetylcholinesterase inhibition (pyridostigmine)

  • Colony stimulating factors (erythropoietin)

  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI).

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Merseyside, C49 5PE, UK

    Mehran Asgari

  2. Barts BP Centre of Excellence, Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC17BE, UK

    Melvin D. Lobo

  3. Barts NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Charterhouse Square, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK

    Melvin D. Lobo

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  1. King's College Hospital, London, UK

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  2. Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

    Lesley Kavi

  3. Barts NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Melvin D. Lobo

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Asgari, M., Lobo, M.D. (2021). Other Medications: Desmopressin, Pyridostigmine, Erythropoietin and SSRIs. In: Gall, N., Kavi, L., Lobo, M.D. (eds) Postural Tachycardia Syndrome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54165-1_34

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