ArticleBrain communications2023
Vagal cross-sectional area correlates with parasympathetic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.
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- Ultrasonography demonstrates vagus nerve atrophy in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis.Journal of neurology · 2026Pooled it
- "Brain-First" vs. "Body-First" PD: Definitions and Implications in Everyday Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Pooled it
- Brain-first versus body-first Parkinson's disease: Differential findings on pupillary, brainstem and vagus sonography.Journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Quantitative Assessment of Peripheral Nerve Echogenicity in Children and Adolescents Aged 2-17 Years: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Ultrasound Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Correlation between right vagus nerve cross-sectional area and abnormal heart rate with deep breathing in Parkinson's disease.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026Article
- Characterizing Initial Cervical Spine and Neurovascular Findings in 84 Consecutive Patients with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- The Enteric Nervous System as a Mediator of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Interactions in Parkinson's Disease.Journal of neurochemistry · 2026Review
- Impact of vagus nerve cross-sectional area on electrocardiogram parameters in community-dwelling older adults: The YAHABA study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Clinical value of high-frequency ultrasound and serum miR-92a-3p in diabetic peripheral neuropathy.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2025Article
- Parasympathetic Dysfunction Prevails in GBA1-Associated Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Article
- Advances in autonomic dysfunction research in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
- Comparison of vagus nerve cross-sectional area between brain-first and body-first Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Ultrasonic detection of vagus, accessory, and phrenic nerve atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Relation to impairment and mortality.European journal of neurology · 2024Observational
- The association of vagal atrophy with parameters of autonomic function in multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2024Article
- Ultrasound evaluation of vagus nerve cross-sectional area in a community-dwelling elderly Japanese cohort.PloS one · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (Review).Medicine internationalReview
- Brain-based symptoms reported in young adults evaluated for cervical spine etiology: a retrospective, cross-sectional clinical study with preliminary data on over 200 patients.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
The aim of this prospective study was to investigate autonomic function in Parkinson's disease with a multidimensional approach including clinical evaluation tools, head-up tilt test and morphological studies of the vagus nerve. Head-up tilt test parameters including high frequency power of the heart frequency interval, the ratio of low frequency power of the distance between two consecutive R waves in electrocardiogram (RR interval) to the high frequency and low frequency power of systolic blood pressure were used to evaluate parasympathetic, cardiac sympathetic and vasomotor sympathetic functions, respectively, in 80 patients with Parkinson's disease. We examined the cross-sectional area of the vagus nerves bilaterally using nerve ultrasound and compared mean values with a control group of healthy subjects (
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