Greater motor improvement in right hemibody Parkinson's patients after dopaminergic medications.
Parkinsonism Relat Disord
; 15(1): 20-3, 2009 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
Due to motor and neuropathological asymmetries, Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with right hemibody onset (RHO) of symptoms may experience greater benefit from dopaminergic enhancing medications, relative to patients with left hemibody onset (LHO). We investigated this possibility by measuring UPDRS scores of 20 PD patients with LHO and 13 patients with RHO, both prior and subsequent to taking dopaminergic enhancing medications. Following treatment, the motor score from the UPDRS improved for both groups of patients. However, PD patients with RHO experienced greater improvement in motor functioning following administration of dopaminergic enhancing medications than those with LHO.
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Asunto principal:
Enfermedad de Parkinson
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Dopaminérgicos
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Lateralidad Funcional
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Trastornos del Movimiento
Límite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Parkinsonism Relat Disord
Asunto de la revista:
NEUROLOGIA
Año:
2009
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos