Abstract Background Overcoming existing access barriers is crucial for better‐specialized health care of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Objective The aim of the study was to compare the access and visit quality/acceptability between in‐office and virtual telemedicine visits.
Álvaro García‐Bustillo +11 more
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Drug-induced dyskinesias can be seen occasionally in clinical practice. Here we present a 70-year-old patient who developed a noticeable dyskinesia after the use of pramipexole, gabapentin, pregabalin respectively for the restless legs syndrome. Prior to
Dürdane Aksoy +4 more
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Influence of chronic L-DOPA treatment on immune response following allogeneic and xenogeneic graft in a rat model of Parkinson's disease [PDF]
Although intrastriatal transplantation of fetal cells for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease had shown encouraging results in initial open-label clinical trials, subsequent double-blind studies reported more debatable outcomes.
Breger, Ludivine S. +4 more
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Continuous cerebroventricular administration of dopamine: A new treatment for severe dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease? [PDF]
In Parkinson’s disease (PD) depletion of dopamine in the nigro-striatal pathway is a main pathological hallmark that requires continuous and focal restoration. Current predominant treatment with intermittent oral administration of its precursor, Levodopa
A. Jonneaux +43 more
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PRRT2 gene variant in a child with dysmorphic features, congenital microcephaly, and severe epileptic seizures: genotype-phenotype correlation? [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Mutations in Proline-rich Transmembrane Protein 2 (PRRT2) have been primarily associated with individuals presenting with infantile epilepsy, including benign familial infantile epilepsy, benign infantile epilepsy, and benign myoclonus of ...
Cho SY +8 more
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Managing Dystonia in Partington Syndrome
Abstract Background Bilateral focal hand dystonia is an almost pathognomonic sign of Partington syndrome, frequently accompanied by intellectual disability and oromotor dyspraxia. However, a few studies have focused on the treatment of this focal dystonia, making patient management uncertain.
Emilie Pichon +13 more
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A Case of Tardive Akathisia and Dyskinesia [PDF]
Various drugs, mainly antipsychotics in psychiatry may induce movement disorders. These acute or tardive type movement disorders could either be in hypokinetic or in hyperkinetic form. There are other movement disorders in tardive type (e.g.
Timuçin Oral +4 more
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Problems associated with the diagnosis and the prescribing of anti-psychotic medication in children and adolescents for psychiatric conditions, by non-psychiatric specialists [PDF]
Aim: The objective of this study is to assess the accuracy of the diagnosis and appropriateness of antipsychotic medication prescribed to children and adolescents referred to child guidance clinic, and how many of these remained on the said medication ...
Camilleri, Nigel +2 more
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The possibility of administration of glutamate receptors antagonists in the treatment of parkinson's disease [PDF]
Parkinson's disease is the slow-progressing chronic neurodegenerative disease. Modern medicine has not yet found methods of curing disease, however, the existing methods of conservative and surgical treatment significantly improve the patient’s quality ...
Avdeeva, N. V. +3 more
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Sertraline induced mandibular dystonia and bruxism
Specific serotonin reuptake inhibitors have been associated with the occurrence of drug-induced parkinsonism, dystonia, dyskinesia, and akathisia. Here, we describe a young female patient with a diagnosis of the moderate depressive episode who developed ...
N A Uvais +2 more
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