Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society
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Case Reports
Pyridostigmine in autonomic failure: can we treat postural hypotension and bladder dysfunction with one drug?
In a 66-year-old man with autonomic failure, pyridostigmine (180 mg/day orally) improved both postural hypotension and underactive detrusor bladder dysfunction. Acetylcholinesterase inhibition may be useful in the management of orthostatic hypotension and bladder dysfunction in autonomic failure patients.
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Letter Clinical Trial
Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation does not alter long-term heart rate variability in Parkinson's disease.
The power spectra of the heart rate variability frequency bands, analyzed from 24-hour ECG recordings, did not change 12 months after bilateral subthalamic nucleus operation in 14 patients with Parkinson's disease.