[Shy-Drager syndrome with disturbances of the respiratory rhythm and consciousness. A propos of an anatomo-clinical case].

The case, including pathological description, of a 65 year old man is presented. Severe disturbances in respiratory rhythm and consciousness occurring during wakefulness and sleep, progressing by acute exacerbations, developed after the disease had been present for 4 years and resulted in death after three months. Small degenerative lesions of the pontine nucleus, the locus coerulus, the intermedio-lateral column and the substantia nigra were seen.