Browsing by Subject "doença de Parkinson"
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Acoustic voice assessment in Parkinson's disease patients submitted to posteroventral pallidotomy
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2005-03-01)Long-term complications in levodopa treated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients caused a resurgence of interest in pallidotomy as an option of treatment. However, postoperative complications such as speech disorders can ...
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Avaliação das atividades da vida diária dos pacientes com doença de Parkinson submetidos a cirurgia estereotáxica
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2002-06-01)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of stereotactic surgery on daily activities of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. METHOD: Thirty patients with idiopathic PD were evaluated before surgery and one, three, six and twelve ...
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Avaliação do processamento auditivo de sons não-verbais em indivíduos com doença de Parkinson
(ABORL-CCF Associação Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, 2004-08-01)Auditory processing, as we understand, refers to how the individual handles with auditory information. The importance of auditory perception of sound sequences and temporal patterns in acquiring and comprehending symbolic ...
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Clinical and molecular neuroimaging characteristics of Brazilian patients with Parkinson's disease and mutations in PARK2 or PARK8 genes
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2009-03-01)OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical and neuroimaging (SPECT) characteristics of Brazilian patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and mutations in PARK2 or PARK8 genes. METHOD: A total of 119 patients meeting clinical criteria ...
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Clinical features of dystonia in atypical parkinsonism
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2008-12-01)BACKGROUND: The association between Dystonia and Parkinson's disease (PD) has been well described especially for foot and hand dystonia. There is however few data on dystonic postures in patients with atypical parkinsonism. ...
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Considerações a respeito da doença de Parkinson de início precoce revisão crítica da literatura
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 1996-12-01)Since its original description Parkinson's disease has been considered as a clinical condition which affects older people. Nonetheless, since late in the last century, cases starting in very young age have been described. ...
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Dementia in Parkinson's disease: a Brazilian sample
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2011-10-01)To determine the prevalence of dementia associated with Parkinson's disease (PD-D) in a Brazilian sample adopting clinical and diagnostic procedures recommended by the Movement Disorders Society (MDS). Sixty-seven patients ...
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Depression increases in patients with Parkinson?s disease according to the increasing severity of the cognitive impairment
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2014-06-01)Objective : To test the hypothesis that severity of cognitive impairment modifies the association between depression and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Method : One-phase population-based door-to-door surveys. This is a secondary ...
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Discinesias induzidas por levodopa em 176 pacientes com doença de Parkinson
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 1995-12-01)Dyskinesias are frequently observed in parkinsonian patients during levodopa treatment. The occurrence of these movement disorders usually makes the therapeutic management of the patients very difficult. The clinical ...
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Dopamine transporter imaging in clinically unclear cases of parkinsonism and the importance of Scans Without Evidence of Dopaminergic Deficit (SWEDDs)
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2012-09-01)The clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) is susceptible to misdiagnosis, especially in the earlier stages of the disease. Recently, in vivo imaging techniques assessing the presynaptic dopamine transporter (DAT) ...