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. 2015 Jun 8;11:915–923. doi: 10.2147/TCRM.S68439

Table 2.

Diseases commonly associated with autonomic dysfunction

Preganglionic autonomic failure
 Multiple system atrophy
 Parkinson’s disease with autonomic failure
Ganglionic and postganglionic disorders
 Pure autonomic failure
Peripheral neuropathies and neuronopathies with autonomic dysfunction
 Acute and subacute (preganglionic and postganglionic)
  Acute pandysautonomia
  Guillain–Barré syndrome
  Paraneoplastic pandysautonomia
  Others (porphyria, toxins, drugs)
 Chronic small-fiber (postganglionic) neuropathies
  Diabetes
  Amyloidosis
  Hereditary (familial dysautonomia, Fabry’s disease)
 Subacute or chronic sensory and autonomic ganglionopathies
  Paraneoplastic
  Sjögren’s syndrome
 Other peripheral neuropathies
  Infections (human immunodeficiency virus)
  Connective tissue disease (systemic lupus erythematosus)
  Metabolic-nutritional (alcohol, uremia, vitamin B12 deficiency)