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The Shy-Drager syndrome. What did Shy and Drager really describe? 1995

N P Quinn, and G Wenning, and C D Marsden

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, England.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D004850	Eponyms	Names based on or derived from the name of a person or a place.	Eponym
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012791	Shy-Drager Syndrome	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)	Autonomic Failure, Progressive,Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy-Drager Type,Orthostatic Hypotension, Dysautonomic,Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome,Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension,Autonomic Failures, Progressive,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,Orthostatic Hypotensions, Dysautonomic,Progressive Autonomic Failure,Progressive Autonomic Failures,Shy Drager Syndrome,Syndrome, Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension,Syndrome, Shy-Drager,Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension
D049673	History, 20th Century	Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.	20th Century History,20th Cent. History (Medicine),20th Cent. History of Medicine,20th Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 20th Century,History of Medicine, 20th Cent.,History, Twentieth Century,Medical History, 20th Cent.,Medicine, 20th Cent.,20th Cent. Histories (Medicine),20th Century Histories,Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine),Cent. History, 20th (Medicine),Century Histories, 20th,Century Histories, Twentieth,Century History, 20th,Century History, Twentieth,Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine),Histories, 20th Century,Histories, Twentieth Century,History, 20th Cent. (Medicine),Twentieth Century Histories,Twentieth Century History