Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Levodopa-Carbidopa Intestinal Gel Improves Quality of Life and Reduced Symptoms of Parkinson’s


A recent clinical trial performed at Evergreen Healthcare has shown that a new form of a typical drug utilized to treat Parkinson's disease tremendously improves the standard living for affected individuals and decreases the impact of symptoms for example tremors, slowness, stiffness and mess walking.

The trial tested standard oral levels of the Parkinson's drug contrary to the newer levodopa-carbidopa colon gel (LCIG) and found that the abdominal treatments offered affected individuals an average of two extra hours each day of decreased symptoms and better change.

Within the three-month, double-blind trial, 71 individuals have been randomized to obtain either the continual infusion of LCIG and dummy pills or perhaps a dummy intestinal gel and pills that in fact included levodopa and carbidopa. In the beginning of the study, the average person had Parkinson's disease for almost 11 years and had 6.6 hours of characteristic behavior each day. A complete of 93 percent of individuals finished the research.

The consequences the research are set to be introduced during the Emerging Science program (formerly often known as Late-Breaking Science) at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Yearly Seminar in New Orleans from April 21 to April 28 of this year.

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