Evaluation of the Nonmotor Symptomatology of Parkinsonian Patients Treated With Two Strategies Related to Apomorphine Pump Therapy in French Hospitals

Summary

There is currently no consensus on the adequate concomitant treatment to apomorphine pump in Parkinson's disease (PD). In practice, some centers withdraw all dopaminergic agonists when initiating apomorphine pump therapy, whereas others combine the two. To date, there has been no study led to determine the best strategy for efficiently treating motor and nonmotor symptoms, as well as improving patients' quality of life (QoL). This preliminary study, entitled AGAPO, aims at identifying significant differences in patients' evolution (nonmotor symptoms and quality of life), over a course of 6 months, depending on the two strategies adopted in French centers (apomorphine pump with or without dopaminergic agonists), through the Non Motor Symptoms Scale (NMSS, Chaudhuri et al, 2017).

Timeline

Start

2019-05-15

Primary completion

2022-06-02

Completion

2022-06-02

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