Chronic autoimmune autonomic neuropathy responsive to immunosuppressive therapy

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-162

  Modoni, A ^a   Mirabella, M ^a   Madia, F ^a   Sanna, T ^a   Lanza, G ^a   Tonali, P A ^a,b   Silvestri, G ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC AUTOIMMUNE AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GLUCOSE ASSAY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTONIC BLADDER; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LABORATORY TEST; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TILT TABLE TEST; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846107486     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000251194.82212.75     Document Type: Article

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