Utility of Diagnostic Studies for Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Children with Orthostatic Intolerance

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS): State of the science and clinical care from a 2019 National Institutes of Health Expert Consensus Meeting - Part 1

“…Gastrointestinal symptoms are commonly reported by individuals with autonomic disorders, including POTS (Sullivan et al, 2005). Clinical diagnostic studies to identify gastrointestinal dysfunction are limited; however, gastrointestinal dysmotility is frequently diagnosed in POTS (DiBaise et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2019). Patients with mild dysmotility as well as those with complete intestinal failure requiring total parental nutrition or surgery have been observed.…”