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SUBMITTER: Wullner U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2895903 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 20100610 7
Continuous delivery of antiparkinsonian medication during a perioperative period is desirable to avoid 'off'-symptom complications in surgical patients with concomitant Parkinson's disease (PD). Fourteen PD patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia were switched from oral dopaminergic medication to transdermally delivered 24-h rotigotine (median dose 12 mg/24 h) for the perioperative period. Rotigotine treatment was considered feasible by patients, their anesthesiologists and neurolog ...[more]