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Autonomic disorders require sufficient consideration, suitable investigation, and appropriate management in clinical practice.
Highlights the importance of recognizing and appropriately managing autonomic disorders in clinical practice.
Warrants routine clinical consideration of autonomic disorders; leaves open the need for prospective studies to define optimal diagnostic and management strategies.
The autonomic nervous system, through the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways, supplies and influences every organ in the body. It closely integrates vital processes, such as blood pressure and body temperature. Its immense capability and flexibility depend on intricate neurologic pathways, involving the action of numerous transmitters. As we approach the centennial of the use of the term “autonomic nervous system,” which was coined by Langley in 1898, we should ask whether autonomic disorders are being sufficiently considered, suitably investigated, and appropriately managed in clinical practice.Awareness is the first step in recognition. Autonomic disorders may be localized or generalized.1 The . . .
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Christopher J. Mathias (1997) conducted an editorial in Autonomic disorders. Autonomic disorders require sufficient consideration, suitable investigation, and appropriate management in clinical practice.
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