Gastrointestinal Care of the Parkinson Patient.

This article reviews the most common gastrointestinal (GI) problems that occur in patients with Parkinson disease, including weight loss, drooling, dysphagia, delayed gastric emptying, constipation, and defecatory dysfunction. Appropriate workup and treatment options are reviewed in detail in order to provide clinicians with a comprehensive and practical guide to managing these problems in Parkinson disease patients. GI adverse effects of commonly used Parkinson disease motor medications are also reviewed.

Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) Signal Intensity Can Identify Stroke Within 6 and 8 Hours.

Background: Patients with wake-up or unknown time of onset stroke are usually excluded from recanalization. However, a few studies indicate that some magnetic resonance sequences can help predict time from symptom onset (SxO). Our goal was to assess the value of fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) signal intensity ratio (SIR) in identifying patients within 6 and 8 hours of stroke onset.