ABNORMALITIES OF CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTIONS IN MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS

  • 1 January 1988
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 144  (4) , 284-288
Abstract
A case of acute pulmonary edema without cardiac failure, infectious or toxic cause, revealing a Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.), one case of bradycardia during a bout in a known M.S. and one case of orthostatic hypotension without change of cardiac frequency, during a bout of a known M.S. are reported. The common point of these 3 cases is that during their autonomic failure, there were disorders pointing to the medulla oblongata: swallowing difficulties, rotatory nystagmus, vestibulo-cerebellar syndrome, sensory and motor defect of upper limbs. A plaque of M.S. in the medulla oblongata, particularly near the tractus solitarius could explain these cardio-pulmonary abnormalities unusual in M.S.