In two instances, signs and symptoms of a small-fiber sensory neuropathy were present. [mayoclinic.pure.elsevier.com]

The serology for EBV showed previous infection but anti-early antigen antibodies were present. No immunodeficiency was found. Neurological and GI recovery occurred after 6 months of parenteral nutrition and bethanechol. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The clinical presentation of acute pandysautonomia is a useful clinical syndromic concept leading to specific work up and treatment. [medlink.com]

• Galactorrhea

  Case of acute polyradiculoneuropathy with various autonomic symptoms and amenorrhea-galactorrhea syndrome. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 1983;23: 526–530. pmid:6686094 View Article PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar 41. [journals.plos.org]

• Absent Bowel Sounds

  Dry and peeling skin, keratitis sicca, a distended abdomen, absent bowel sounds, a distended urinary bladder, diminished rectal tone, atonic dartos muscle, and absent bulbocavernous reflex may be observed. [clinicalsciences.wordpress.com]

• Abnormal Sweating

  She denied blurring of vision or abnormality of sweating. She experienced nausea, malaise, and abdominal distension but attributed these symptoms to cancer treatment. Examination revealed mild cachexia and orthostatic hypotension. [clinicalsciences.wordpress.com]

• Paresthesia

  Definition Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a type of acute inflammatory neuropathy. [1] [2] It is a clinically defined syndrome characterized by motor difficulty, absence of deep tendon reflexes, paresthesias without objective sensory loss, and increased [online.epocrates.com]

  Loss of function “- symptoms” Disordered function “+ symptoms” Sensory “Large Fiber” ↓ Vibration ↓ Proprioception Hyporeflexia Sensory ataxia Paresthesias Sensory “Small Fiber” ↓ Pain ↓ Temperature Dysesthesias Allodynia The clinical response to sensory [slideshare.net]

  Manual muscle test was intact, and showed no signs of hypesthesia or paresthesia in sensory nervous system. Deep tendon reflexes were decreased bilaterally at both lower extremities. There were no abnormalities in cerebellar function tests. [e-sciencecentral.org]

  This is associated with distal paresthesias and loss of deep tendon reflexes. Progression is often maximal by the end of 4 weeks, then the condition usually plateaus before slowly improving. [emedicine.medscape.com]

  He started to improve in his motor power within 3 weeks, but continued to have paresthesia for 6-8 months which partially responded to gabapentin. A year later he was neurologically asymptomatic. [ispub.com]

• Fixed Pupils

  Incidental discovery of a dilated and fixed pupil with no clinical evidence of impaired oculomotor nerve function or increased intracranial pressure should suggest the diagnosis of ... [Show full abstract] pharmacologic dilation of the pupil. [researchgate.net]

• Urinary Hesitancy

  Nine months later the patient developed syncope on standing, abdominal distention, constipation, anhi-drosis, dryness of the mouth and eyes, urinary hesitancy, and cold intolerance over a three-week period. [dokumen.tips]

Additional workup included: the tumormarker Cyfra 211 and NSE were initially elevated, 2 month later nor-mal. [docslide.net]

Lest you think I suddenly became really smart, I got this information from the following: Medscape: Autonomic Neuropathy Workup, Medical Paper You need to have a complete blood count, basic metabolic panel, liver function testing, and immunoelectrophoresis [ihpotblogspot.blogspot.com]

Additional workup included: the tumormarker Cyfr a 21–1 and NSE were initially elevated, 2½ month later nor- mal. [researchgate.net]

Diagnostic workup The diagnosis is primarily based on recognizing the acute or subacute development of widespread autonomic dysfunction with preserved motor and sensory functions. [clinicalsciences.wordpress.com]

Polymyositis: Differential diagnoses & workup. Omaha, NE: eMedicine.com; updated November 6, 2009. Available at: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/335925-diagnosis. Accessed March 15, 2010. Kalluri M, Sahn SA, Oddis CV, et al. [aetna.com]

• Gliosis

  Abnormalities in the brain were confined to the brainstem and consisted of complete loss of neurons with severe fibrillary gliosis in the region of the Edinger-Westphal nuclei as well as loss of neurons with gliosis in the locus ceruleus and in the reticular [researchgate.net]

Symptomatic treatment is complex and is helpful in supporting function. If an autoimmune etiology is identified immunomodulatory treatments should be employed early in the course to avoid progressive disability. [medlink.com]

Treatment of AAG is based on case reports. It is clear that AAG patients respond to immunomodulatory treatments but combination immunotherapy may be required to achieve a clinical response. [researchgate.net]

Short term high dose cortisone treatment is regularly employed in infectious diseases like optic neuritis [12]. Th is treatment of high dose corticosteroids is considerably safe [13] and therefore a therapeutic attempt seemed rea-sonable. [docslide.net]

Management The treatment is mainly symptomatic and supportive until spontaneous recovery occurs. Midodrine hydrochloride, an alpha adrenergic agonist is useful in the treatment of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension. [clinicalsciences.wordpress.com]

The majority of cases have a poor prognosis with a chronic debilitating course. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Th e majority of cases have a poor prognosis with a chronic de-bilitating course. [docslide.net]

Source MeSH Acute Disease Autonomic Nervous System Diseases Chronic Disease Humans Prognosis Pub Type(s) Journal Article Review Language eng PubMed ID 2486239 TY - JOUR T1 - Acute curable pandysautonomia and chronic progressive pandysautonomia. [unboundmedicine.com]

Prognosis - Acute cholinergic dysautonomia Not supplied. Treatment - Acute cholinergic dysautonomia Not supplied. Resources - Acute cholinergic dysautonomia [checkorphan.org]

Further tests failed to find a cause of acute neuropathy especially where there was no evidence for paraneoplastic or infectious etiology. The patient was treated with high dose intravenous prednisolone and completely recovered. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Paraneoplastic disease was also found as a possible etiology in a few cases [6, 7]. [mafiadoc.com]

If an autoimmune etiology is identified immunomodulatory treatments should be employed early in the course to avoid progressive disability. [medlink.com]

Autonomic Nervous System Diseases, complications; Diabetes Complications, complications; Humans; MEDLINE, statistics & numerical data; Multiple System Atrophy, complications; Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous System, complications; Pupil Disorders, etiology [collections.lib.utah.edu]

All patients from a database including sera sent for routine antiganglioside-antibody testing and fulfilling ASAN criteria were collected and their epidemiological, clinical and electrophysiological features analyzed. [oatd.org]

The epidemiology of Guillain-Barré syndrome worldwide. A systematic literature review. Neuroepidemiology 2009; 32 (2) 150-163 5 Rocha MS, Brucki SM, Carvalho AA, Lima UW. Epidemiologic features of Guillain-Barré syndrome in São Paulo, Brazil. [thieme-connect.com]

Epidemiology In general, these can occur in men and women at any age, but the epidemiology will depend on the particular cause. Some causes are very rare. [patient.info]

There is a clear epidemiological relationship to antecedent infections, the best characterized of which is with campylobacter jejuni enteritis. [clinicaladvisor.com]

Epidemiology Acute pandysautonomia is a rare disorder affecting all ages (range 9 to 74 years) and both sexes. No specific information on epidemiology is available. Prevention No information was provided by the author. [clinicalsciences.wordpress.com]

The purpose of this book is to present a focused approach to the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of the most common autonomic disorders that may present to the clinical neurologist. Autonomic Neurology is divided into 3 sections. [books.google.com]

In this article, the author discusses various clinical presentations with emphasis on early diagnosis, current pathophysiology, and treatment. [medlink.com]

Rapidly find the answers you need with separate sections on diseases and disorders, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory results, and clinical preventive services, plus an at-a-glance format that uses cross-references, outlines, bullets [books.google.com]

Collaborative Meta-Analysis of Randomised Trials of Antiplatelet Therapy for Prevention of Death, Myocardial Infarction, and Stroke in High Risk Patients. ‎ [books.google.es]