Acute pandysautonomia - Restitutio ad integrum by high prednisolone therapy

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 123, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 508-511

  Struhal, Walter ^a   Hödl, Stephanie ^a   Mazhar, Samy ^a   Ransmayr, Gerhard ^a  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy; Autonomic neuropathy; Dysautonomia; Pandysautonomia; Prednisolone

Indexed keywords

BETHANECHOL; DOXAZOSIN; LACTULOSE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDODRINE; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE PANDYSAUTONOMIA; ADIE SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRY EYE; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; HYPOTONIC BLADDER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MANDARIN; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MYDRIASIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRESYNCOPE; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST; XEROSTOMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETHANECHOL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOXAZOSIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOREPINEPHRINE; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; PREDNISOLONE; PRIMARY DYSAUTONOMIAS; PROGNOSIS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 83555173404     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: 16137671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-011-0030-z     Document Type: Article

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