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Descriptor English:

Shy-Drager Syndrome

Descriptor Spanish:

Síndrome de Shy-Drager

Descriptor Portuguese:

Síndrome de Shy-Drager

Synonyms English:

Autonomic Failure, Progressive
Autonomic Failures, Progressive
Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome
Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome
Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndromes
Dysautonomic Orthostatic Hypotension
Dysautonomic Orthostatic Hypotensions
Failure, Progressive Autonomic
Failures, Progressive Autonomic
Hypotension Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic
Hypotension Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic
Hypotension, Dysautonomic Orthostatic
Hypotensions, Dysautonomic Orthostatic
Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy Drager Type
Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy-Drager Type
Orthostatic Hypotension, Dysautonomic
Orthostatic Hypotensions, Dysautonomic
Progressive Autonomic Failure
Progressive Autonomic Failures
Shy Drager Syndrome
Syndrome, Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension
Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension
Syndrome, Shy-Drager
Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension

Tree Number:

C10.177.575.550.750
C10.228.140.079.612.700
C10.228.662.550.700
C14.907.514.741

Definition English:

A progressive neurodegenerative condition of the central and autonomic nervous systems characterized by atrophy of the preganglionic lateral horn neurons of the thoracic spinal cord. This disease is generally considered a clinical variant of MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY. Affected individuals present in the fifth or sixth decade with ORTHOSTASIS and bladder dysfunction; and later develop FECAL INCONTINENCE; anhidrosis; ATAXIA; IMPOTENCE; and alterations of tone suggestive of basal ganglia dysfunction. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p536)

See Related English:

Multiple System Atrophy

History Note English:

1991(1981)

Allowable Qualifiers English:

BL blood	CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced	CL classification
CO complications	CN congenital
DI diagnosis	DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy	DT drug therapy
EC economics	EM embryology
EN enzymology	EP epidemiology
EH ethnology	ET etiology
GE genetics	HI history
IM immunology	ME metabolism
MI microbiology	MO mortality
NU nursing	PS parasitology
PA pathology	PP physiopathology
PC prevention & control	PX psychology
RT radiotherapy	RH rehabilitation
SU surgery	TH therapy
UR urine	VE veterinary
VI virology

Record Number:

13172

Unique Identifier:

D012791

Occurrence in VHL:

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