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Myocardial sympathetic degeneration correlates with clinical phenotype of Parkinson's disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 May 2007
Spiegel Jörg, Hellwig Dirk, Farmakis Georgios, Jost Wolfgang H, Samnick Samuel, Fassbender Klaus, Kirsch Carl-Martin, Dillmann Ulrich
Abstract excerpt
In idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), different clinical subtypes are distinguished due to predominant motor symptoms: a tremor-dominant type (TDT), an akinetic rigid type (ART), and a mixed type (MT). We compared myocardial sympathetic innervation, measured by MIBG scintigraphy, in different subtypes of PD at early and advanced stages of PD. We applied MIBG scintigraphy in 102 patients with PD. About 57...
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