[Digestive disorders in Parkinson's disease: gastric atony, malabsorption and constipation].
BACKGROUND
Constipation and gastric atony are two of the most important non-motor symptoms of the disease. The first is made significant by its high prevalence and precocity, since it may appear several years before the motor symptoms, and the second because of the repercussions it has on the absorption of oral medication used in this disease.


METHODS
Both the symptoms and their possible treatment are reviewed.


CONCLUSIONS
In both cases treatment is based on hygienic-dietary measures that avoid substances that reduce peristalsis, prokinetic drugs like domperidone and, sometimes, infiltration of botulinum toxin, electrical stimulation or even surgical treatment.
Pérez-Macho
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Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora, España.
Borja-Andrés
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D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003248:Constipation / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000502:physiology; D018589:Gastroparesis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008286:Malabsorption Syndromes / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000150:complications*
D000978:Antiparkinson Agents