PD in: Dysautonomia International: Summary of Pure Autonomic Failure

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Pure Autonomic Failure (PAF) is a peripheral degenerative disorder of the autonomic nervous system (ANS).1 PAF was formerly known as Bradbury-Eggleston Syndrome, after the two researchers who first described it in 1925. PAF is also referred to as idiopathic orthostatic hypotension by some physicians.4,6 PAF is one of three diseases classified as a primary autonomic disorder, the other two being Multiple System Atrophy and Parkinson's Disease.

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