Jin-Woo Park, Luis E Okamoto, Sung-Hwan Kim, Chan-Nyoung Lee, Kun Woo Park, Seol-Hee Baek, Joo Hye Sung, Namjoon Jeon, Seong-Beom Koh, Alfredo Gamboa, Cyndya A Shibao, André Diedrich, Byung-Jo Kim, Italo Biaggioni
PURPOSE: The specific characteristics of autonomic involvement in patients with early Parkinson's disease (PD) are unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics of autonomic dysfunction in drug-naïve patients with early-stage PD without orthostatic hypotension (OH) by analyzing Valsalva maneuver (VM) parameters. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed drug-naïve patients without orthostatic hypotension (n = 61) and controls (n = 20)...
April 23, 2024: Clinical Autonomic Research: Official Journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society