1. Autonomic dysfunction in patients with essential tremor
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Ersel Dag, Murat Alpua, Yasin Habipoglu, Cemil Bilkay, Yakup Türkel, and Kırıkkale Üniversitesi
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0301 basic medicine ,Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Neurology ,Autonomic dysfunction ,R-R interval variation ,Dermatology ,Sympathetic skin response ,Comorbidity ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Heart Rate ,medicine ,Humans ,In patient ,Neuroradiology ,Aged ,Essential tremor ,General Medicine ,Galvanic Skin Response ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Electrophysiology ,Autonomic nervous system ,030104 developmental biology ,Autonomic Nervous System Diseases ,Anesthesia ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Neurosurgery ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
WOS: 000394386000008 PubMed: 27812758 The aim of this study was to evaluate the autonomic function in patients with essential tremor (ET). Thirty-one adult patients with ET and 26 healthy controls were enrolled in the study. The electrophysiological evaluations of the autonomic nervous system function were performed by sympathetic skin response (SSR) and R-R interval variation (RRIV) tests. The mean latency of SSR in ET patients was significantly delayed compared with the controls (P = 0.01). The mean amplitude of sympathetic skin response was significantly lower in ET patients in comparison to the controls (P = 0.001). No differences were found in mean RRIV values in both group subjects. Sympathetic dysfunction may occur in patients with ET. This may be easily demonstrated by SSR tests. Kirikkale University Scientific Research Projects UnitKirikkale University [2014/102] This work was supported by the Kirikkale University Scientific Research Projects Unit (2014/102).
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- 2017