Publications by authors named "Sean Fiegert"
Article Synopsis
- - This study aimed to explore autonomic function in Parkinson's disease by using various methods such as clinical assessments, a head-up tilt test, and ultrasound imaging of the vagus nerve among 80 patients.
- - Results showed that Parkinson's patients had a significantly smaller cross-sectional area of the vagus nerve compared to healthy individuals and those with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, with the right nerve being larger than the left in all groups.
- - The head-up tilt test revealed that 43 patients had autonomic dysfunction, with specific conditions like orthostatic hypertension and chronotropic incompetence, and the vagal nerve size was related to heart rate and parasympathetic function during the test.
Background And Purpose: We evaluated muscle echointensity as a marker for secondary axonal damage in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) using ultrasonography. Findings were correlated with clinical disability and muscular strength.
Methods: Eighty patients with CIDP (40 with typical and 40 with atypical CIDP) were examined clinically, including assessment of Medical Research Council (MRC) sum score and Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment Overall Disability Sum Score (INCAT-ODSS).