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Hemiballism and chorea in a patient with parkinsonism due to a multisystem degeneration
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1992.
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Abstract
- Dyskinesias associated with dopaminergic treatment in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) can be indistinguishable from those arising spontaneously in other conditions involving degeneration of, or damage to, the basal ganglia. However, those due to levodopa treatment of PD disappear on cessation of therapy. We report a patient with a clinical diagnosis of PD who, on levodopa treatment, developed hemiballism and chorea that were originally thought to be drug induced. However, the dyskinesias persisted despite stopping levodopa. Postmortem analysis showed a multisystem degeneration.
- Subjects :
- Levodopa
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Parkinson's disease
Degeneration (medical)
Gastroenterology
Antiparkinson Agents
Diagnosis, Differential
Degenerative disease
Central Nervous System Diseases
Chorea
Internal medicine
Basal ganglia
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
medicine
Humans
Aged
Hemiballismus
Movement Disorders
business.industry
Parkinsonism
Brain
Carbidopa
Parkinson Disease
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
Drug Combinations
Spinal Cord
Neurology
Nerve Degeneration
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Atrophy
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15318257 and 08853185
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Movement Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....17ea59cedf6ae56adfb60fb91998e790
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.870070115