Sympathetic cardioneuropathy in dysautonomias

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 696-702

  Goldstein, David S ^a   Holmes, Courtney ^a   Cannon III, Richard O ^b   Eisenhofer, Graeme ^a   Kopin, Irwin J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; NORADRENALIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSAUTONOMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INNERVATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOPAMINE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HEART; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; NOREPINEPHRINE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUES; SHY-DRAGER SYNDROME; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031055909     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199703063361004     Document Type: Article

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