Acute autonomic, sensory and motor neuropathy: Successful treatment with IVIg

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 843-846

  Ueda, Akihiro ^a   Asakura, Kunihiko ^a   Mihara, Takateru ^a   Hara, Hideo ^a   Ueda, Madoka ^a   Miyashita, Tadayuki ^a   Mutoh, Tatsuro ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Dysautonomia; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE AUTONOMIC SENSORY MOTOR NEUROPATHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEVER; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEAD TILTING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE POTENTIAL; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PLEOCYTOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; STEROID THERAPY; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RENIN; SHY-DRAGER SYNDROME; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 67649964677     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1848     Document Type: Article

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