General Information
Vanderbilt University Autonomic Dysfunction Center:
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=adc&doc=4790
Parkinsonian Disorders and Pure Autonomic failure:
http://www.wfneurology.org/pdfs/SeminarsInClinicalNeurology/Munsat_chapter8.pdf
Primary Autonomic Failure: Three Clinical Presentations of One Disease? by Horacio Kaufmann:
http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/autodis/disorders/parkinson/Primary.pdf
A Review of the Classification, Diagnosis, and Management of Autonomic Dysfunction Syndromes Associated with Orthostatic Intolerance by Blair P. Grubb and Sergio do Carmo Jorge:
http://publicacoes.cardiol.br/abc/2000/7406/74060008i.pdf
Identification of a Renin Threshold and Its Relationship to Salt Intake in a Patient With Pure Autonomic Failure by Henriette Hohenbleicher; Fabian Klosterman; Ulrike Schorr;Sepp Seyfert; Pontus B. Persson and Arya M. Sharma:
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/5/1068
Orthostatic Tolerance, Cerebral Oxygenation, and Blood Velocity in Humans With Sympathetic Failure by Harms M. P., Colier W. N., Wieling W., Lenders J. W., Secher N. H., van Lieshout J. J.:
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/31/7/1608
Fear Conditioning in Humans: The Influence of Awareness and Autonomic Arousal on Functional Neuroanatomy by Hugo D. Critchley, Christopher J. Mathias, Raymond J. Dolan:
http://www.psychiatry.wustl.edu/Resources/LiteratureList/2002/February/
Critchley.pdf
Medical Physiology CV Conference 2, Q & A
http://www3.kumc.edu/aamsa/subjects/Phys/conference/2000/cv2.pdf
Causes/Mechanisms
The Distribution of Lewy Bodies in Pure Autonomic Failure: Autopsy Findings and Review of the Literature by K. Hague, P. Lento, S. Morgello, S. Laro and H. Kaufmann:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/cm7nrxyrh9lru35j/fulltext.pdf?page=1
Accumulation of Alpha Synuclein in Autonomic Nerves in Pure Autonomic Failure by Horacio Kaufmann, Karen Hague and Daniel Perl:
http://www.mssm.edu/neurology/autodis/disorders/paf/Synuclein.pdf
Hypotension and/or Hypertension
Stress induced hypotension in pure autonomic failure by R D Thijs and J G van Dijk:
http://jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/77/4/552
Orthostatic Hypotension by Bradley JG, Davis KA.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20031215/2393.pdf
Autoregulation of Cerebral Blood Flow in Orthostatic Hypotension by Novak V., Novak P., Spies J. M., Low P. A.:
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/1/104
Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension and other Autonomic Failure Syndromes by Dianna Quan:
http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic609.htm
Neck and other muscle pains in autonomic failure: their association with orthostatic hypotension by K M Bleasdale-Barr and C J Mathias:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1296807&blobtype=pdf
Cognitive functioning in orthostatic hypotension due to pure autonomic failure by Heims HC, Critchley HD, Martin NH, Jager HR, Mathias, CJ, Cipolotti L.:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16683070
Sympathetically Mediated Hypertension in Autonomic Failure by John R. Shannon, Jens Jordan, Andre Diedrich, Bojan Pohar, Bonnie K. Black,
David Robertson, Italo Biaggioni:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/23/2710?ck=nck
Vasopressin and Blood Pressure in Humans by Jens Jordan and Jens Tank:
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/36/6/e3
Outlook
Progression and prognosis in pure autonomic failure (PAF): comparison with multiple system atrophy by N Mabuchi, M Hirayama, Y Koike, H Watanabe, H Ito, R Kobayashi,K Hamada and G Sobue:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1739727&blobtype=pdf
Sleep
A Sound Night’s Rest may do no good in Autonomic Failure! by Christopher J. Mathias:
http://cs.portlandpress.co.uk/cs/101/0619/1010619.pdf
Tests
Hormonal and cardiovascular reflex assessment in a female patient with pure autonomic failure by Lopes HF, Consolim-Colombo FM, Hachul D, Carvalho ME, Pileggi F, Silva HB:
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/abc/v75n3/2870.pdf
Evaluation of orthostatic hypotension: relationship of a new self-report
instrument to laboratory-based measures by Schrezenmaier C, Gehrking JA, Hines SM, Low PA, Benrud-Larson LM, Sandroni P:
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/80/3/330
Treatments
Could treatment with DOPS do for autonomic failure what DOPA did for Parkinson’s disease by Horacio Kauffman:
http://www.mountsinai.org/img/vgn_lnk/Regular%20Content/File/Research/Autonomic%20Disorders%20Program/DOPS.pdf
The Anemia of Primary Autonomic Failure and its Reversal with Recombinant Erythropoietin by Italo Biaggioni, David Robertson, Sanford Krantz, Mark Jones, and Virginia Haile:
http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01aug94/anemia.htm
The Pressor Response to Water Drinking in Humans by Jens Jordan, John R. Shannon, Bonnie K. Black, Yasmine Ali, Mary Farley;Fernando Costa, Andre Diedrich, Rose Marie Robertson, Italo Biaggioni and
David Robertson:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/101/5/504
The Hypertension of Autonomic Failure and its Treatment by John Shannon, Jens Jordan, Fernando Costa, Rose Marie Robertson, and Italo Biaggioni:
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/5/1062
