Levodopa-Associated Dyskinesia Risk Among Parkinson Disease Patients in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1976-1990
Open Access
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 63 (2), 205-209
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.63.2.205
Abstract
Dyskinesias represent an excessive levodopa response and can always be eliminated by levodopa reduction. In some patients, however, such dose reduction results in loss of parkinsonism control, and dyskinesias must then be accepted to experience the benefits of levodopa.Keywords
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