Autonomic dysfunction in Huntington's disease: A ¹²³I-MIBG study

Arnold C T Ng^{1

2}, Victoria Delgado³, Jeroen J Bax⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, UK.
² The Faculty of Medicine, South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands. j.j.bax@lumc.nl.

Editorial

Arnold C T Ng et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2022 Apr.

. 2022 Apr;29(2):649-651.

doi: 10.1007/s12350-020-02304-z. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

Arnold C T Ng^{1

2}, Victoria Delgado³, Jeroen J Bax⁴

¹ Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, UK.
² The Faculty of Medicine, South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands. j.j.bax@lumc.nl.

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