Methodological aspects and usefulness of Quantitative Sensory Testing in early small fiber polyneuropathy : a clinical study in Swedish hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis patients

Methodological aspects and usefulness of Quantitative Sensory Testing in early small fiber polyneuropathy : a clinical study in Swedish hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis patients

Generalised polyneuropathy (PNP) is a common cause to neurological impairment, and may be an early symptom of a severe systemic disease. One such illness is hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTR), a progressive fatal disorder caused by a mutation on the TTR gene. More than 100 such mutati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heldestad, Victoria
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Klinisk neurofysiologi 2011
Subjects:
Amyloidosis
cold thresholds
heart rate variability
method-of-limits
quantitative sensory testing
transthyretine
warm thresholds
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-50617
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7459-320-4

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