Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Jan 2021
Being a patient with early stage Parkinson disease: reaction to the diagnosis and management.
This personal viewpoint, written by a neurologist with Parkinson disease (PD), is to provide a patient's perspective, to accompany the clinical perspective in this issue of the Intenal Medicine Journal entitled 'Approach to the patient with early stage Parkinson disease'. The aim is to provide a personal insight into the numerous issues surrounding early diagnosis and management of PD, from the position of being a physician patient.
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Internal medicine journal · Jan 2021
Approach to the patient with early Parkinson disease: diagnosis and management.
This article presents an evidence-based approach to the patient with newly diagnosed Parkinson disease (PD). It includes a discussion of the current understanding of the aetio-pathogenesis of PD and of clinical features, both motor and non-motor, that assist the clinician in making this diagnosis. ⋯ The newly diagnosed patient with PD is often keen to know what the future holds for them, as they face this progressive neurodegenerative condition. While currently available medical therapies are symptomatic, rather than disease-modifying, in nature, it is hoped that improved understanding of the aetio-pathogenesis of PD will pave the way for future disease-modifying therapies.