Publications by authors named "Audrey Rouille"
Background: There is little experience with the effect of pregnancy on Parkinson disease because the number of women with Parkinson disease who are of childbearing age is small. We report four cases beginning during the postpartum period and discuss the potential contribution of different factors that may influence the occurrence of Parkinson disease in this time period.
Cases: Four women aged 29-35 years developed arm tremor, shoulder pain, dizziness, or decreased dexterity of the hand in the first few days or months after childbirth.
Background: Previous studies found a poor association between parkinsonian patient's reported subjective improvement after commencing dopaminergic treatment and improvements in objective measures of motor impairment by clinician.
Objective: To compare PD patient's subjective perceived motor improvement after acute levodopa challenge test with objective motor improvement assessed by the clinician using the UPDRS part III. To analyze clinical characteristics, i.
Background: Clinical pre-operative predictive factors of optimal STN-DBS motor outcome in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been previously reported. However, available data involving elderly patients are conflicting.
Objective: To compare early post-operative outcomes in parkinsonian patients younger than 65 years old (group 1) vs patients 65 years old or older (group 2) at the time of surgery.
Background: Pre-operative predictive factors for optimal post-operative effect of subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been previously reported. No study has explicitly assessed the link between excess pre-operative body weight and STN stimulation outcome.
Methods: We retrospectively compared STN stimulation outcomes of 36 PD patients with excess pre-operative body weight (group 1) and 36 matched normal-weight pre-operative (group 2) PD patients.