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Dysphagia Causes Symptom Fluctuations after Oral L-DOPA Treatment in a Patient with Parkinson Disease

OBJECTIVE: The causes of “delayed-on” and “no-on” phenomena in Parkinson disease (PD) are thought to have some impact on the progress of L-DOPA from the time of ingestion until it reaches the brain and is converted to dopamine. Dysphagia can cause fluctuating symptom expression in L-DOPA therapy for...

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Autores principales: Sato, Hiromasa, Yamamoto, Toshiyuki, Sato, Masako, Furusawa, Yoshihiko, Murata, Miho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5903165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29681829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000488138