Dyspnea as first sign of autonomic failure in postmortem confirmed multiple system atrophy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1997-1998

  Meissner, Wassilios G ^a   Vital, Anne ^a   Ghorayeb, Imad ^a   Guehl, Dominique ^a   Tison, François ^a  

^a BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA;

ATROPHY; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTOPSY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DYSKINESIA; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ATROPHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TREMOR; URINE INCONTINENCE; WEIGHT GAIN; WHITE MATTER;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DYSPNEA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; PURE AUTONOMIC FAILURE;

EID: 77954946349     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23182     Document Type: Letter

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