Involvement of cardiac sympathetic nerve endings in a patient with idiopathic RBD and intact nigrostriatal pathway

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 789-791

  Paglionico, S ^a   Labate, A ^a,b   Salsone, M ^a   Morelli, M ^a   Novellino, F ^a   Cascini, G ^a   Quattrone, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

DAT SPECT; MIBG; RBD

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM;

ABNORMAL DREAMING; AGED; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART NERVE; HUMAN; LETTER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NIGHTMARE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP STAGE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MYOCARDIUM; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TROPANES;

EID: 70450224896     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.03.008     Document Type: Letter

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