title: [Pandysautonomia. Severe autonomic dysfunction accompanying polyneuropathy].
abstract: The case of a young woman with complete autonomic paralysis following an event of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections is described. The diagnosis was based upon clinical, neurophysiological, and laboratory findings. In view of the occurrence of identical--although less pronounced--autonomic disturbances in some cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome and the high incidence of minor degrees of weakness, paresthesias, reflex loss, and CSF protein elevation in dysautonomic polyneuropathy, it seems likely that the latter disorder is also an immune polyneuropathy affecting the autonomic fibers within the peripheral nerves.
authors.affiliation: Neurologisk Afdeling 2082, H:S Rigshospitalet, DK-2100 København Ø.
authors.forename: Ingelise
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Christiansen
authors.forename: Poul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brodersen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D020277:Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Pandysautonomi. Svoer autonom dysfunktion ledsagende polyneuropati.