One of the greatest rewards in practicing medicine is successfully treating and alleviating a patient’s illness – but first, we often face a challenging and complex diagnostic process when our ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is often difficult to distinguish from Parkinson's disease (PD) with autonomic failure, but this is an important distinction for research studies as well as for clinical ...

Results from a new study suggest that autonomic testing can identify neuropathy before clinical autonomic symptoms or pain are apparent. Information on patterns of neuropathic symptoms and ...

Investigators studied diagnostic and treatment pathways for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension in a man with fluctuating blood pressure and several comorbidities. Considering neurogenic orthostatic ...

Melissa Cortez, DO, is a neurologist who has specialized expertise in neurological diseases affecting the autonomic nervous system (autonomic neurology), as well as multiple sclerosis (MS). She is ...