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ArticleAnnals of clinical and translational neurology2020

Cardiac sympathetic innervation and vesicular storage in pure autonomic failure.

David S Goldstein, Risa Isonaka, Courtney Holmes, Yu-Shin Ding, Yehonatan Sharabi

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Article in Annals of clinical and translational neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Preclinical Catecholaminergic Biomarkers of Central Lewy Body Diseases.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026
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  2. Multitracer PET to Assess Cardiac Sympathetic Innervation and Vesicular Storage in Lewy Body Diseases.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

David S GoldsteinAutonomic Medicine Section, Clinical Neurosciences Program, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.ORCID 0000-0002-5709-9940
Risa IsonakaAutonomic Medicine Section, Clinical Neurosciences Program, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Courtney HolmesAutonomic Medicine Section, Clinical Neurosciences Program, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Yu-Shin DingDepartment of Radiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.
Yehonatan SharabiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel.
National Institutes of Health · USNYU Langone Health · USTel Aviv University · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivePure autonomic failure (PAF) is a rare disease characterized by neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (nOH), absence of signs of central neurodegeneration, and profound deficiency of the sympathetic neurotransmitter norepinephrine. Reports have disagreed about mechanisms of the noradrenergic lesion. Neuropathological studies have highlighted denervation, while functional studies have emphasized deficient vesicular sequestration of cytoplasmic catecholamines in extant neurons. We examined both aspects by a combined positron emission tomographic (PET) neuroimaging approach using

methodsSeven comprehensively tested PAF patients and 11 controls underwent

resultsIn the PAF group septal

interpretationPAF entails moderately decreased cardiac sympathetic innervation and a substantial vesicular storage defect in residual nerves.

Indexed as

AgedAutonomic Nervous System DiseasesCatecholaminesFemaleHeartHumansHypotension, OrthostaticMaleMiddle AgedMyocardiumNorepinephrineParkinson DiseasePure Autonomic FailureSympathetic Nervous SystemTomography, X-Ray ComputedCatecholaminesNorepinephrine

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PMID32945121
PMCPMC7545586
OpenAlexW3085872441

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