ARTICLE: Face cooling increases blood pressure during central hypovolemia
arterial pressure… which suggests that this technique could be employed as a tool to prevent or delay cardiovascular decompensation during central hypovolemia.”
ARTICLE: Quantitative measures of tissue mechanics to detect hEDS & HSD: a systematic review
Here’s a new article that explores a few ways that might be useful to evaluate a patient’s tissues as part of the hEDS/HSD diagnosis process. Quantitative measures of tissue mechanics to...
Cerebral Venogram/Pressure Norms
On Friday I had a cerebral angiogram/venogram to check my intracranial + jugular pressures as part of my workup for Vascular Eagle’s Syndrome. While I got the report back quite quickly,...
ARTICLE: Neurocardiogenic syncope (2004)
I was diagnosed with “vassodepressor syncope” (a type of Neurocardiogenic Syncope (NCS)) almost a decade before I started to investigate EDS, and yet I’ve recently realized that I know less about...
ARTICLE: Diagnosed prevalence of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorder in Wales, UK: a national electronic cohort study and case–control comparison (2019)
A new article from Dr. Emma Reinhold & Joanne Demmler has just been published, which shows that EDS/JHS is #NotRare! And though we know it is significantly UNDERdiagnosed (only approximately 1 in 20 hEDS/HSD patients is thought...