Parkinson’s disease with camptocormia
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...A relevant number of PD camptocormia patients present with additional laterodeviation [8, 10, 31], but there are no accepted criteria of how to differentiate the combination of Pisa syndrome and camptocormia....
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...In the majority of patients, treatment with L-dopa gives only minimal or no improvement of camptocormia in PD [6, 8, 19]....
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...While inflammatory camptocormia usually shows a more rapid course over weeks to months, there are basically two patterns of camptocormia in PD: A more rapid one and one with symptoms worsening even after more than one year [8, 11, 12, 22, 105]....
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...Therefore, 17 patients who met stringent selection criteria for our clinical study of PD associated with camptocormia [8] were prospectively enrolled in this MR imaging protocol....
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...This finding is consistent with previous studies suggesting that a neuronal dysfunction or additional damage to brainstem structures implicated in the control of posture—the pedunculopontine nucleus [8, 34] or the reticulospinal pathway [9]—may account for camptocormia in PD patients....
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...Therefore, we suggest that—except for the coincidental occurrence of neuromuscular disease [8, 12]—fatty involution observed...
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...Finally, although a sample size effect cannot be ruled out, the fact that brainstem MR volumetry fails to detect any significant differences between PD with and without camptocormia is in agreement with the hypothesis that PD with and without camptocormia may represent a spectrum of the same disease [8]....
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