Early Freezing of Gait: Atypical versus Typical Parkinson Disorders
Joint Authors
Lieberman, Abraham
Deep, Aman
Dhall, Rohit
Tran, An
Liu, Ming-Jai
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-02-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In 18 months, 850 patients were referred to Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center (MAPC).
Among them, 810 patients had typical Parkinson disease (PD) and 212 had PD for ≤5 years.
Among the 212 patients with early PD, 27 (12.7%) had freezing of gait (FOG).
Forty of the 850 had atypical parkinsonism.
Among these 40 patients, all of whom had symptoms for ≤5 years, 12 (30.0%) had FOG.
FOG improved with levodopa in 21/27 patients with typical PD but did not improve in the 12 patients with atypical parkinsonism.
FOG was associated with falls in both groups of patients.
We believe that FOG unresponsive to levodopa in typical PD resembles FOG in atypical parkinsonism.
We thus compared the 6 typical PD patients with FOG unresponsive to levodopa plus the 12 patients with atypical parkinsonism with the 21 patients with typical PD responsive to levodopa.
We compared them by tests of locomotion and postural stability.
Among the patients with FOG unresponsive to levodopa, postural stability was more impaired than locomotion.
This finding leads us to believe that, in these patients, postural stability, not locomotion, is the principal problem underlying FOG.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lieberman, Abraham& Deep, Aman& Dhall, Rohit& Tran, An& Liu, Ming-Jai. 2015. Early Freezing of Gait: Atypical versus Typical Parkinson Disorders. Parkinson’s Disease،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-5.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lieberman, Abraham…[et al.]. Early Freezing of Gait: Atypical versus Typical Parkinson Disorders. Parkinson’s Disease No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-5.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Lieberman, Abraham& Deep, Aman& Dhall, Rohit& Tran, An& Liu, Ming-Jai. Early Freezing of Gait: Atypical versus Typical Parkinson Disorders. Parkinson’s Disease. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1075929
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1075929