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Its Relationship With Parkinson's Disease

Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen, MD; Olivier Périer, MD; Jacques E. Sternon, MD

Arch Neurol. 1970;22(3):207-214.

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IN 1925, Bradbury and Eggleston¹ isolated from among the diverse forms of orthostatic hypotension a clinical entity of slow progressive course characterized by neurological signs, in addition to orthostatic hypotension and slow fixed pulse rate. This condition is now generally recognized as "idiopathic orthostatic hypotension" (IOH).² The associated neurological symptoms vary from case to case and may include pyramidal, extrapyramidal, cerebellar, and lower motor neuron syndromes. They are slight and indefinite in the cases of Bradbury and Eggleston.¹ Their onset may be delayed many years after the postural changes, or they may even be absent, as in seven of the 30 cases of Thomas and Schirger.³ Tremor, rigidity, and frozen facial expression are particularly frequent, and sometimes the clinical picture mimics Parkinson's disease, as in 13 of the 15 cases of Schatz and his colleagues⁴ and in 11 of the 23 neurological cases of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brussels

From the departments of pathology (Drs. Vanderhaeghen and Périer) and internal medicine (Dr. Stemon), Saint Pierre Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Free University of Brussels, Brussels.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 25, 1969; accepted Sept 29.

Reprint requests to the Division of Neuropathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif 94304 (Dr. Vanderhaeghen).

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