TABLE 1.
Autonomic diagnosis | Hypermobile form of Ehlers-danlos syndrome (hE-DS) | Medication |
9 PoTS (3 female, 6 male) | 7/9 (78%) | 8 analgesic |
4 Comorbid PoTS and VVS (4 female) | 4/4 (100%) | 7 antidepressant |
3 Presyncope (2 female, 1 male) | 3/3 (100%) | 5 anti-epileptic drug |
1 VVS (male) | 1/1 (100%) | 4 proton pump inhibitor 4 anti-inflammatory 4 antipsychotic |
1 Generalized EH (female) | – | 3 Salbutamol inhaler 3 migraine treatment 3 anti-nausea |
1 orthostatic hypotension (female) | 1/1 (100%) | 2 anti-bladder spasmodic 2 constipation medication 2 antihistaminics |
1 Comorbid PoTS, VVS, and craniofacial EH (male) | – | Medication |
20/25 (80%) | 16/20 (80%) |
EH, essential hyperhidrosis; PoTS, postural tachycardia syndrome; VVS, vasovagal syncope. The numbers and percentage with an autonomic diagnosis and hE-DS are indicated below.