Parkinson disease
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Clinically established or probable Parkinson disease meeting the MDS clinical diagnosis criteria for Parkinson disease (2015) 2. Stage <= III on the Hoehn and Yahr scale in the ON state 3. Receiving treatment with L-DOPA for >= 6 months (26 weeks) and have been shown to be effective at the beginning of the administration 4. Advanced PD who will be hospitalized for medical evaluation, drug adjustment, and rehabilitation 5. Either hospitalized patient or outpatient 6. capable of giving a voluntary written informed consent after sufficient understanding of the research 7. Among those who use eyeglasses, those who can spend 6 hours corresponding to the evaluation time without using their own eyeglasses
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Atypical Parkinsonism syndromes 2. Dementia or at high risk of it (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score < = 20) 3. Contraindicated for concomitant medications (L-DOPA / carbidopa) 4. Hypersensitivity to concomitant medications (L-DOPA / carbidopa) and/or their ingredients 5. Co-existing psychiatric disease (e.g., depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia) and/or clinically significant complications (e.g., cerebrovascular accident, heart disease, chronic respiratory disease, uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes) 6. History of psychiatric disease (e.g., depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia) and/or device-aided therapies (i.e., GPi pallidotomy, thalamotomy, and deep brain stimulation) 7. Those who are judged by the principal investigator to be inappropriate as research subjects
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Clinical evaluation scales for Parkinson disease (Hoehn-Yahr, MDS-UPDRS, UDysRS, patient diary, PDQ-39, and EQ-5D-5L) 2. Eye movement (saccadic movement, eye blinks, eye blink speed, etc.) 3. Plasma levodopa concentration | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Juntendo University School of Medicine Department of Neurology