Parkinson's Disease: Unanticipated Sequela of an Attempted Suicide

Studies exploring the association between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) are largely limited to rural populations with occupational exposure. We could find no literature regarding PD occurring after ingestion of a pesticide. We present a case from our clinic of a man who develo...

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Autores principales: Grossman, Jonathan T, Filatov, Asia, Hammond, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864238
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9409
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description Studies exploring the association between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) are largely limited to rural populations with occupational exposure. We could find no literature regarding PD occurring after ingestion of a pesticide. We present a case from our clinic of a man who developed PD following ingestion of a liquid pesticide during a suicide attempt. PD was diagnosed, and the patient’s symptoms improved following initiation of carbidopa/levodopa. This case illustrates the potential role of ingested pesticide exposure in provoking and accelerating the manifestations of PD.
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spelling pubmed-74496122020-08-28 Parkinson's Disease: Unanticipated Sequela of an Attempted Suicide Grossman, Jonathan T Filatov, Asia Hammond, Thomas Cureus Neurology Studies exploring the association between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) are largely limited to rural populations with occupational exposure. We could find no literature regarding PD occurring after ingestion of a pesticide. We present a case from our clinic of a man who developed PD following ingestion of a liquid pesticide during a suicide attempt. PD was diagnosed, and the patient’s symptoms improved following initiation of carbidopa/levodopa. This case illustrates the potential role of ingested pesticide exposure in provoking and accelerating the manifestations of PD. Cureus 2020-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7449612/ /pubmed/32864238 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9409 Text en Copyright © 2020, Grossman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Parkinson's Disease: Unanticipated Sequela of an Attempted Suicide
title_sort parkinson's disease: unanticipated sequela of an attempted suicide
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449612/
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