DISEASES THAT MIMIC MSA

Non-Acquired

• Dementia with Lewy Bodies
• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Pure autonomic failure (however there are some ideas that this entity is a spectrum)
• Corticobasal degeneration
• Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS)
• Vascular parkinsonism
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Prion disorder (genetic or sporadic)

Acquired

• Whipple’s disease
• Extrapontine myelinolysis
• Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
• Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration
• Drug-induced cerebellar degeneration
• Gluten Ataxia

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Prepared By:

Dr. Oybek E. Turgunkhujaev, Neurologist, Movement Disorders, Director, Complex Diagnostics, Semeynaya Clinic, Moscow, Russia;