Revista de neurologia
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Revista de neurologia · Jul 2018
[Outpatient establishment and initial management of treatment with intraduodenal levodopa-carbidopa infusion in advanced Parkinson's disease].
Treatment with intraduodenal levodopa-carbidopa infusion is one of the three therapies currently available for advanced Parkinson's disease. It optimizes the benefit of antiparkinsonian treatment by counteracting the negative effect of erratic gastric emptying on the absorption of oral levodopa. The purpose is to describe our outpatient protocol of treatment establishment. ⋯ The outpatient onset install of this treatment saves costs and avoids the negative impact of admission on the patient with advanced Parkinson's disease, in the same way that favors their adaptation and tolerability to it.