Multiple-system atrophy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 249-263

  Fanciulli, Alessandra ^a,b   Wenning, Gregor K ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; BUSPIRONE; CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; LEVODOPA; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROTEIN P25; PROTEIN P25ALPHA; SILDENAFIL; UBIDECARENONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ABNORMAL POSTURE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CELL INCLUSION; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; COQ2 GENE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHY; ONSET AGE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARKINSONISM; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SHC2 GENE; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SNCA GENE; STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION; STRIDOR; SUPRAPUBIC CATHETERIZATION; SURVIVAL TIME; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HYPOTENSION; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84920982675     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1311488     Document Type: Review

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