Multiple System Atrophy Links

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

General Information

Multiple System Atrophy, Dr. Andre Diedrich:

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1154583-overview

Multiple System Atrophy: Medline Plus.gov: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000757.htm

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

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

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

Hypotension and/or hypertension

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-016-8375-x/fulltext.html

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

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

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
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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

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

The natural history of multiple system atrophy: a prospective European cohort study, Dr. Christopher Mathias et al:   http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(12)70327-7/fulltext

Support Groups

The Multiple System Atrophy Coalition
8311 Brier Creek Parkway
Suite 105-434
Raleigh,  NC  27617
Tel: 1-866-737-5999
www.multiple-system-atrophy.org
contacts:
Judy Biedenharn jbiedenharn@msacoalition.org
Vera James vjames@msacoalition.org
Pam Bower pbower@msacoalition.org
Carol Langer clanger@msacoalition.org
Don Crouse dcrouse@msacoalition.org