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Natural History

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MSA is an orphan neurodegenerative disease for which no curative therapy is presently available. Motor as well as non-motor symptoms progress relentlessly, fully revealing the malignant nature of the disorder that has been rightly likened to a beast (Quinn 1989). In the last decades, multiple factors have been identified to play a pivotal prognostic role in the disease. Awareness of these is all the more important for an appropriate management and counselling of MSA patients.

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MSA is an orphan neurodegenerative disease for which no curative therapy is presently available. Motor as well as non-motor symptoms progress relentlessly, fully revealing the malignant nature of the disorder that has been rightly likened to a beast (Quinn 1989).

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Fanciulli, A., Wenning, G.K. (2014). Natural History. In: Wenning, G., Fanciulli, A. (eds) Multiple System Atrophy. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0687-7_8

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