Treatment of Parkinson disease in patients with surgical problems
Sobolewski, P.
Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska 37(Suppl 5): 183-188
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3843 PMID: 15098345 Document Number: 555695
The aim of the reports is to emphasize difficulty in treatment of Parkinson's disease in patients with surgical problems. Complex treatment of this patients is of major therapeutic challenge. The use of either soluble forms of levodopa, parenteral amantadine or apomorphine in the immediate postoperative period for patients unable to take oral antiparkinson drugs and early resumption of the oral antiparkinson drugs increases patients' comfort, may reduce serious postoperative complications and are the key points in the management of the patients.