Small fiber neuropathy in Parkinson's disease: A clinical, pathological and corneal confocal microscopy study

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1454-1460

  Kass Iliyya, Lewis ^a,b   Javed, Saad ^c   Gosal, David ^a   Kobylecki, Christopher ^a,b   Marshall, Andrew ^a   Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^c,d   Ponirakis, Georgios ^c,d   Tavakoli, Mitra ^c   Ferdousi, Maryam ^c   Chaudhuri, Kallol Ray ^e   Jeziorska, Maria ^c   Malik, Rayaz A ^c,d   Silverdale, Monty A ^a,b  

^a SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cornea; Intraepidermal nerve fiber density; Parkinson's disease; Small fiber neuropathy

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEAL NERVE BRANCH DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER LENGTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPNEA; INTRAEPIDERMAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE FOR OUTCOMES IN PARKINSON DISEASE AUTONOMIC SYMPTOMS; SKIN BIOPSY; SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; DEVICES; EPIDERMIS; FOOT; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONMYELINATED NERVE; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; CORNEA; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FOOT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84955747623     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.10.019     Document Type: Article

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