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Proposition of zinc supplementation during levodopa–carbidopa intestinal gel treatment

OBJECTIVES: Levodopa–carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG) infusion is a useful therapy for the wearing‐off phenomenon of advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Recently, we found three PD patients that may have had a zinc deficiency after the LCIG infusion, possibly due to the zinc‐chelating ac...

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Autores principales: Matsuyama, Hirofumi, Matsuura, Keita, Ishikawa, Hidehiro, Hirata, Yoshinori, Kato, Natsuko, Niwa, Atsushi, Narita, Yugo, Tomimoto, Hidekazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30358126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1143