Monday, January 30, 2006

Shy Drager Syndrome no longer exists

According to the American Autonomic Society and the American Academy of Neurology, the syndrome described by Shy and Drager in 1962 now forms part a a bigger entity called Multiple System Atrophy. Review the source:

Consensus statement on the definition of orthostatic hypotension, pure autonomic failure, and multiple system atrophy. Neurology. 1996; 46:1470.

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