## Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of augmentation over 66 weeks of treatment with ropinirole in patients with primary restless legs syndrome (RLS). Augmentation is the main complication of long‐term dopaminergic treatment of RLS. Despite widespread use of ropinirol
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Progressive development of augmentation during long-term treatment with levodopa in restless legs syndrome: results of a prospective multi-center study
✍ Scribed by Birgit Högl; Diego García-Borreguero; Ralf Kohnen; Luigi Ferini-Strambi; Georgios Hadjigeorgiou; Magdolna Hornyak; Al de Weerd; Svenja Happe; Karin Stiasny-Kolster; Viola Gschliesser; Renata Egatz; Birgit Frauscher; Heike Benes; Claudia Trenkwalder; Wayne A. Hening; Richard P. Allen
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- Springer
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- 2009
- Tongue
- English
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- 262 KB
- Volume
- 257
- Category
- Article
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- 0340-5354
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## Abstract We report the first large‐scale double‐blind, randomly assigned study to compare two active dopaminergic therapies for Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), the dopamine agonist cabergoline (CAB) and levodopa/benserazide (levodopa). Patients with idiopathic RLS were treated with fixed daily dos