One year treatment with lisuride delivery pump in Parkinson's disease

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 1989;13(1-2):173-83. doi: 10.1016/0278-5846(89)90015-8.

Abstract

1. A group of 14 fluctuating Parkinsonian patients underwent the subcutaneous Lisuride treatment, administered by an insulin delivery pump. Clinical response has been studied during a one year period. 2. Some patients (8 out of 14) were in combined therapy, assuming a relative small amount of oral L-Dopa together with subcutaneous Lisuride. 3. Lisuride confirmed, also by the subcutaneous route, its antiparkinsonian properties, without any loss of therapeutical efficacy during the 12 month period considered. 4. 7 patients dropped-out from the study, due to psychiatric or systemic side-effects and to "technical" management of the pump. 5. The only 2 patients assuming a 24 hour regimen of Lisuride infusion were among the withdrawn subjects. They were also the only to complain severe psychiatric disturbances.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Ergolines / administration & dosage*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infusion Pumps*
  • Levodopa / therapeutic use
  • Lisuride / administration & dosage*
  • Lisuride / adverse effects
  • Lisuride / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Parkinson Disease / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Ergolines
  • Levodopa
  • Lisuride