Objective : To analyze the long-term outcomes of patients presenting with pure parkinsonian tremor and to determine whether or not such patients develop the other features of Parkinson’s disease (PD) eventually. Methods and materials : Two hundred fifty-one patients with PD followed at our referral center, were examined regularly. In this study, we evaluated the longterm follow up of the the pa...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a disorder resulting from the death of dopaminergic neurones in the substantia nigra, which is located within the basal ganglia. Patients classically present with poverty of movement (hypokinesia, eg, a shuffling gait), slowness of movement (bradykinesia), rigidity and resting tremor. Although the disease is predominantly a movement disorder, other problems frequentl...

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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the socio-demographic and clinical feature of patients with Parkinson`s disease, their health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and the relationship between these. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Hospital, and Ministry of Health, Taksim and Haseki Education and Research Hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. The s...

background : subthalamic nucleus (stn) stimulation is the  reatment of choice for carefully chosen patients with idiopathic parkinson's disease (pd) and refractory motor fluctuations. we evaluated the value of intraoperative electrophysiology during stn deep brain stimulation (dbs) procedures in refining the anatomically-defined target. methods : we determined the spatial distance between the a...