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NEUROLOGY 2005;64:753-754
© 2005 American Academy of Neurology
Brief Communications

Laryngospasm: An underdiagnosed symptom of X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy

Anne-Dorte Sperfeld, MD, C. Oliver Hanemann, MD, Albert C. Ludolph, MD and Jan Kassubek, MD

From the Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Germany

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Anne-Dorte Sperfeld, Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg 45, 89081 Ulm, Germany; e-mail: anne-dorte.sperfeld{at}medizin.uni-ulm.de

The authors reviewed the occurrence and concomitant factors of laryngospasm in X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease [KD]). Recurrent laryngospasm was observed in 47% of 49 patients with KD, but in only 2% of a control group of patients with early-stage ALS.






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