[A comparative study of the catecholamine content of the blood and urine in patients with facial paraspasm (Meige's syndrome)].

Abstract

Catecholamines and DOPA excretion and televant levels in blood were measured in 17 patients with facial paraspasm and in 24 healthy subjects. The findings gave evidence for sympathetic-adrenal system adrenal activation and more intensive catecholamine metabolism in patients, especially marked in those with generalised facial hyperkinesia.

• Authors: M Kh Karimova, A G Korneĭchuk, A A Kubatiev, V S Kudrin, O D Mamysheva
• Journal: Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova) Vol. 94 Issue 5 Pg. 35-7 ( 1994) ISSN: 1997-7298 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Sravnitel'noe issledovanie soderzhaniia katekholaminov v krovi i moche u bol'nykh s litsevym paraspazom (sindrom Mezha).
• PMID: 7900449 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Catecholamines

Topics

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Catecholamines (analysis)
• Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
• Chronic Disease
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Meige Syndrome (metabolism)
• Middle Aged
• Spectrometry, Fluorescence