A marked response to oral dopaminergic substitution is one of the diagnostic criteria for idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Oral L-Dopa treatment remains to be the most efficacious and best tolerated way of parkinsonian drug therapy. A majority of patients, however, will develop late complications inc
New drugs in the future treatment of Parkinson's disease
β Scribed by Ruth Djaldetti; Eldad Melamed
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Volume
- 249
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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