Progress on identification and management of Parkinson′s disease-related fatigue / 中华神经科杂志

ABSTRACT

Fatigue is one of the most common and disabling symptoms of Parkinson′s disease (PD), which has an important impact on the quality of life. Due to the lack of a strict and unified definition and classification of PD-related fatigue, as well as a clear quantitative standard, clinical studies on fatigue in PD have drawn different conclusions, making fatigue research challenging. Normative studies in this area have been complemented by the publication of the 2016 expert consensus on diagnostic criteria for PD associated fatigue. In this paper, the incidence, influencing factors, clinical evaluation measures and treatment of PD-related fatigue were reviewed to provide the latest information for clinical identification and management of PD-related fatigue patients.