Objective: To assess the efficacy of oral rehydration salts in children with neurally mediated syncope of different hemodynamic types. Methods: Children with unexplained syncope or pre-syncope who visited or were hospitalized between March 2012 and February 2015 were enrolled in the study. Checked by the head-up tilt test, 105 children (aged 4-18 years, with a mean age of 11.96 ± 2.86 years) were diagnosed with neurally mediated syncope. Of them, 73 had vasovagal syncope (vasodepressor type in 46, mixed/cardioinhibitory types in 27), and 32 had postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. They were randomized into the oral rehydration salts plus health education group (n = 55) and the health education alone group (n = 50). All treated children were followed up. The follow-up time ranged from 6 to 25 (14.82 ± 6.13) months. Short-term effects were assessed according to the recurrence of clinical symptoms and reviews of head-up tilt test results 6 months after drug withdrawal. Long-term effects were compared between both groups of children with neurally mediated syncope. Results: Short-term effect: No significant differences were found in subjective response rate and head-up tilt test negative results rate among different hemodynamic types (P >.05). Long-term effect: Compared with the health education alone group, the cumulative response rate increased after treatment with oral rehydration salts (P
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Li, W., Wang, S., Liu, X., Zou, R., Tan, C., & Wang, C. (2019). Assessment of Efficacy of Oral Rehydration Salts in Children With Neurally Mediated Syncope of Different Hemodynamic Patterns. Journal of Child Neurology, 34(1), 5–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0883073818803035
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