Multiple System Atrophy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wenning, Gregor K. (Editor), Fanciulli, Alessandra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This textbook provides a comprehensive monography on multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that presents with autonomic failure and either parkinsonism (MSA-P) or cerebellar ataxia (MSA-C).The underlying neuropathology of MSA is characterized by striatonigral deg...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Historical Review
• 2. Epidemiology
• 3. Neuropathology
• 4. Etiopathogenesis
• 5. Animal Models
• 6. Clinical Presentation
• 7. Clinical diagnostic Criteria
• 8. Natural History
• 9. Investigations
• 10. Tratment.