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15261607

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-7-20
pubmed:abstractText
Parkinson's disease leads to major disability that impairs the quality of life of patients and leads to increased health-care costs. While there is no proven neuroprotective treatment, more basic-science research and clinical trials are needed to identify drugs that slow or halt the progression of the disorder. The mainstay of symptomatic treatment is levodopa. With long-term use, levodopa causes motor complications including involuntary movements and response fluctuations. These have lead to more cautious prescribing of levodopa. Dopamine agonists can be used as an alternative initial therapy to delay the onset of motor complications but at the expense of more dopaminergic adverse events, poorer control of motor symptoms, and increased cost. Once motor complications have developed, adjuvant therapy with dopamine agonists or entacapone can reduce off time and levodopa dose. Severe fluctuations that are not controlled by oral combination therapy can be controlled with subcutaneous apomorphine injections or infusions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1474-4422
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
466-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Neuroprotection and pharmacotherapy for motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Birmingham, UK. c.e.clarke@bham.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review