Autonomic Dysfunction in Epileptic Patients

Assessment of autonomic function in epileptic patients.

OBJECTIVE To use spectral analysis to assess the autonomic activity of epileptic patients compared with normal patients, and to assess the clinical usefulness of the applied methods of signal processing. METHODS Forty-eight patients with generalized tonic-clonic seizures and who were not taking any medications, and 48 age and gender matched controls participated in this study from July to Sep...

Autonomic dysfunction in uremia.

Autonomic nervous system dysfunction is a common feature in uremia and may have a number of clinical sequelae. Simple cardiovascular reflex screening can be performed in patients during conservative treatment, on periodic dialysis therapy, or after kidney transplantation to diagnose and follow up autonomic function impairment. Other approaches, such as heart-rate variability studies in the freq...

Autonomic dysfunction in syringomyelia.

capillary forms (Robbins, 1963). Thrombosis of the cavernous spaces and any stage of organization of the thrombi may be present. Some degree of fibrosis is usual and calcification can occur as was seen in our patient on radiological examination. Considering the pathological anatomy of a haemangioma, it is possible to surmise that red-cell fragmentation could occur in such a situation as a resul...

Autonomic dysfunction in dementia.

BACKGROUND There are no studies of autonomic function comparing Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VAD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). AIMS To assess cardiovascular autonomic function in 39 patients with AD, 30 with VAD, 30 with DLB, 40 with PDD and 38 elderly controls by Ewing's battery of autonomic function tests and power spectral analysi...

reversible autonomic dysfunction during antiviral treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis c virus infection