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Please keep in mind that recent clinical findings will not be included in earlier publications.

General Information

Multiple System Atrophy by Horacio Kaufmann:
http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/autodis/disorders/msa/msapaper.pdf

Multiple System Atrophy by Joseph Jankovic, M.D.:
http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/neurol/jankovic/pdfs/MSA.pdf

About Health TV with Jeanne Blake and Dr. Freeman:
http://www.abouthealth.com/assets/newimages/MSA.pdf#search=%22
multiple%20system%20atrophy%202006%20%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Multiple System Atrophy by Andre Diedrich and David Robertson:
http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic671.htm

Multiple System Atrophy by Laurie Swan and Jerome Dupont:
http://www.ptjournal.org/cgi/reprint/79/5/488

Multiple System Atrophy by WE MOVE:
http://www.wemove.org/msa/

Primary Autonomic Failure: Three Clinical Presentations of One Disease? by Horacio Kaufmann:
http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/autodis/disorders/parkinson/Primary.pdf

MSA Pamphlet by The Parkinsonism Society of New Zeeland:
http://www.weka.net.nz/weka/weka.nsf/Files/msa+pamphlet/$file/msa+pamphlet
.PDF#search=%22multiple%20system%20atrophy%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Multiple System Atrophy in Singapore by RDG Jamora, A Gupta, AKY Tan & LCS Tan:
http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/34VolNo9200510/V34N9p553.pdf

Causes and mechanisms

Brain Degeneration Linked to Fatal Attractions of Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders by John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia M.-Y. Lee:
http://www.j-alz.com/issues/3/3(1)/trojanowski_p117.pdf

Absence of A-synuclein MRNA Expression in Normal and Multiple System Atrophy Oligodendroglia by D. W. Miller, J. M. Johnson, S. M. Solano, Z. R. Hollingsworth, D. G. Standaert, A. B. Young:
http://www.hcnr.med.harvard.edu/programs/atrc/online%20
library%20PDFs/Miller_JNT_2005.pdf#search=%22multiple%
20system%20atrophy%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Visual Event-Related Potential Changes in Two Sub-Types of Multiple System Atrophy: MSA-C and MSA-P by T. Kamitani, Y. Kuroiwa, L. Wang, M. Li, Y. Suzuki, T. Takahashi, T. Ikegami, S. Matsubara:
http://www.biac.duke.edu/library/papers/2002_JNeurol_Kamitani
.pdf#search=%22multiple%20system%20atrophy%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Voxel-based Analysis of Multiple System Atrophy of Cerebellar Type: Complementary Results by Combining Voxel Based Morphometry and Voxel-based Relaxometry by Karsten Specht, Martina Minnerop, Jonas Muller-Hubenthal and Thomas Glockgether:
http://fmri.uib.no/pdf/publikasjoner/Specht_Minnerop_VBM
_VBR_MSA_NI_v25_p287_2005.pdf#search=%22multiple%
20system%20atrophy%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Hypotension and/or hypertension

Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension and other Autonomic Failure Syndromes by Dianna Quan:
http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic609.htm

Sympathetically Mediated Hypertension in Autonomic Failure by John R. Shannon, Jens Jordan, Andre Diedrich, Bojan Pohar, Bonnie K. Black,
David Robertson and Italo Biaggioni:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/101/23/2710

Hypertensive cardiovascular damage in patients with primary autonomic failure by Vagaonescu TD, Saadia D, Tuhrim S, Phillips RA, Kaufmann H.:
http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/autodis/disorders/paf/Hypertensive.pdf

Impairment

Neuropsychological functions in progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy and Parkinson's disease:
http://www.neurologyindia.com/article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2006;volume=54;issue=3;spage=268;epage=272;aulast=Krishnan

Raynaud's Phenomenon

Raynaud's Phenomenon after Sympathetic Denervation in Patients with Primary Autonomic Failure: Questionnaire Survey by Rajeev Mallipeddi and Christopher J Mathias:
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7129/438

Support Groups

SDS/MSA Support Group (A great resource for information and support):
http://www.shy-drager.org/

Tests/Detection

REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder Differentiates Pure Autonomic Failure from Multiple System Atrophy with Autonomic Failure by Giuseppe Plazzi, Pietro Cortelli, Pasquale Montagna, Alessandro De Monte, Raffaella Corsini, Manuela Contin, Federica Provini, Giulia Pierangeli, Elio Lugaresi:
http://jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/64/5/683

Multiple System Atrophy Presenting as Central Sleep Apnoea by L.J. Cormican, S. Higgins, A.C. Davidson, R. Howard and A.J. Williams:
http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/reprint/24/2/323.pdf#search
=%22multiple%20system%20atrophy%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Treatment

Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple System Atrophy: An Update by Gregor Wenning and Felix Geser:
http://www.acnr.co.uk/pdfs/volume3issue6/v3i6reviewart1.pdf#
search=%22multiple%20system%20atrophy%20filetype%3Apdf%22

Could Treatment with DOPS do for Autonomic Failure what Dopa did for Parkinson's Disease? by Horacio Kaufmann: http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/autodis/disorders/paf/DOPS.pdf

The Anemia of Primary Autonomic Failure and its Reversal with Recombinant Erythropoietin by Italo Biaggioni, David Robertson, Sanford Krantz, Mark Jones, and Virginia Haile:
http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01aug94/anemia.htm

The Pressor Response to Water Drinking in Humans by Jens Jordan, John R. Shannon, Bonnie K. Black, Yasmine Ali, Mary Farley; Fernando Costa, Andre Diedrich, Rose Marie Robertson, Italo Biaggioni and
David Robertson:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/101/5/504

The Hypertension of Autonomic Failure and its Treatment by John Shannon, Jens Jordan, Fernando Costa, Rose Marie Robertson, and Italo Biaggioni:
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/5/1062



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