Pyridostigmine in autonomic failure: Can we treat postural hypotension and bladder dysfunction with one drug?

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 296-298

  Yamamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Yamanaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Uchiyama, Tomoyuki ^a   Asahina, Masato ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Koyama, Yu ^a   Awa, Yusuke ^a   Yamamoto, Kaori ^a   Kinou, Mika ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multiple system atrophy; Neurogenic underactive bladder; Postural hypotension; Pure autonomic failure; Pyridostigmine

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; THREO 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLSERINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER SPHINCTER; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEAD TILTING; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MICTURITION DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; RR INTERVAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNCOPE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES;

EID: 33746429515     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-006-0358-z     Document Type: Article

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