title: Acute pandysautonomic neuropathy.
abstract: Acute pandysautonomic neuropathy is characterized by severe postganglionic sympathetic and parasympathetic dysfunction, with relative or complete sparing of motor and sensory function. Of four reported cases with sural nerve biopsies, two were normal and two abnormal, revealing loss of small myelinated and unmyelinated fibers. We present a patient with pandysautonomic neuropathy and elevated CSF protein whose sural nerve biopsy showed active axonal degeneration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Feldman
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Bromberg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blaivas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Junck
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001369:Axons / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000473:pathology