Dysautonomia: serial cases managed with magnectic cellular repolarized system

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Mauricio Duque Ramírez
Leonardo Carvajal Posada
Ana María López Suescún
Alejandra Cuartas Alzate

Abstract

Objective: to describe the behavior of disautonomia through its management with complementary therapies like alternative medicine with magnetic cellular repolarized system (MCRS).


Methods: case study done in disautonomic patients that were managed with MCRS, in whom the demographic characteristics, the presence of syncopes and presyncopal symptoms, changes in the blood pressure and heart rate, and the results of quality of life were analyzed (two questionnaires were used, SF36 and EQ-5D, and the patients were grouped in four groups according to the punctuations).


Results: there were similarities found with other series in regards to demographic data, finding a prevalence and severity in the female symptoms with ages between 16 and 25 years old, in addition to light weight. All of the patients presented prodromes sometime during their disease, while the syncopes were presented by 57% of them. In blood pressure 6/7 presented hypotension and the heart rate had an average of 70 beats per minute and 80 beats per minute at the beginning and follow up respectively. In the punctuation there was improvement of the quality of life, comparing the follow up with the beginning.


Conclusions: disautonomia affects more young and thin women, it is related to regular and bad quality of life, but it gets better with well-established treatment, basic measures such as the increase of salt and liquid consumption and compression maneuver to improve the vascular return, improvement was also seen with MCRS.

Keywords:
primary dysautonomias, complementary therapies, quality of life, syncope, blood pressure, heart rate

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Author Biographies

Mauricio Duque Ramírez, Universidad CES

Doctor, Cardiologist, Electrophysiologist, Teacher. CES University School of Medicine, CES Clinic. Medellin Colombia.

Leonardo Carvajal Posada, Spanish Association of Neuropathy and Biotherapy

Colombian scientist. Spanish Association of Neuropathy and Biotherapy. Medellin Colombia.

Ana María López Suescún, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Doctor. Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellin Colombia.

Alejandra Cuartas Alzate, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Doctor. Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellin Colombia

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