Shy-Drager Syndrome
Synonyms
Autonomic Failure, Progressive
Autonomic Failures, Progressive
Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome
Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome
Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndromes
Dysautonomic Orthostatic Hypotension
Dysautonomic Orthostatic Hypotensions
Failure, Progressive Autonomic
Failures, Progressive Autonomic
Hypotension Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic
Hypotension Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic
Hypotension, Dysautonomic Orthostatic
Hypotensions, Dysautonomic Orthostatic
Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy Drager Type
Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy-Drager Type
Orthostatic Hypotension, Dysautonomic
Orthostatic Hypotensions, Dysautonomic
Progressive Autonomic Failure
Progressive Autonomic Failures
Shy Drager Syndrome
Syndrome, Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension
Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension
Syndrome, Shy-Drager
Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension
A progressive neurodegenerative condition of the central and autonomic nervous systems characterized by atrophy of the preganglionic lateral horn neurons of the thoracic spinal cord. This disease is generally considered a clinical variant of MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY. Affected individuals present in the fifth or sixth decade with ORTHOSTASIS and bladder dysfunction; and later develop FECAL INCONTINENCE; anhidrosis; ATAXIA; IMPOTENCE; and alterations of tone suggestive of basal ganglia dysfunction. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p536)
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