"Shy-Drager Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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)
| Descriptor ID |
D012791
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.177.575.550.750 C10.228.140.079.612.700 C10.228.662.550.700 C10.574.625.700 C10.574.875 C14.907.514.741
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| Concept/Terms |
Shy-Drager Syndrome- Shy-Drager Syndrome
- Shy Drager Syndrome
- Syndrome, Shy-Drager
- Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension
- Syndrome, Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension
- Orthostatic Hypotension, Dysautonomic
- Dysautonomic Orthostatic Hypotension
- Dysautonomic Orthostatic Hypotensions
- Hypotension, Dysautonomic Orthostatic
- Hypotensions, Dysautonomic Orthostatic
- Orthostatic Hypotensions, Dysautonomic
- Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome
- Dysautonomia Orthostatic Hypotension Syndrome
- Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension Syndromes
- Hypotension Syndrome, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic
- Hypotension Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic
- Syndromes, Dysautonomia-Orthostatic Hypotension
- Autonomic Failure, Progressive
- Autonomic Failures, Progressive
- Failure, Progressive Autonomic
- Failures, Progressive Autonomic
- Progressive Autonomic Failure
- Progressive Autonomic Failures
- Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy-Drager Type
- Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension, Shy Drager Type
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