Influence of levodopa on orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson's Disease.

CONCLUSION: Orthostatic hypotension frequently occurs in patients with PD, occasionally with serious consequences. LD has often been viewed as essentially causing this state. Our study did not confirm this supposition, but rather revealed merely a minor association in individual cases. PMID: 32219811 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32219811?dopt=Abstract

Source: Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska - March 26, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Jost WH, Altmann C, Fiesel T, Becht B, Ringwald S, Hoppe T Tags: Neurol Neurochir Pol Source Type: research