Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy with late-onset encephalopathy

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-32

  Baker, S K ^a   Morillo, C ^b   Vernino, S ^c  

^a Department of Medicine   (Canada)

^b Autonomics Laboratory   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy; Encephalopathy; IVIg; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MIDODRINE; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR ALPHA7; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANHIDROSIS; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE AUTONOMIC GANGLIONOPATHY; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BINDING AFFINITY; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEFECATION HABIT; DRY EYE; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MYDRIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; SATIETY; SERUM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST; XEROSTOMIA;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDODRINE; NOREPINEPHRINE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PRIMARY DYSAUTONOMIAS; PUPIL DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; THYROXINE;

EID: 60649115836     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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