title: [Clinical criteria of Parkinson's disease].
abstract: The clinical criteria of Parkinson's disease are akinesia in combination with at least one of the following three symptoms: tremor (asymmetrical resting tremor), rigidity, impairment of posture, gait and balance. Symptomatic and atypical parkinsonian syndromes are ruled out by history, clinical examination, cranial CT, MRI, SPECT or PET. Patients with Parkinson's disease respond to levodopa or dopaminagonists throughout the course of the disease. Parkinson's disease is also characterised by various vegetative symptoms, impairment of olfaction, anxiety, depression, and with increasing age also by cognitive deficits and dementia.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Linz. gerhard.ransmayr@akh.linz.at
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ransmayr
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003704:Dementia / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018491:Dopamine Agonists / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007980:Levodopa / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents; D018491:Dopamine Agonists; D007980:Levodopa