Prim Care Companion CNS Disord
March 2023
Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a sporadic and progressive neurodegenerative disorder with a complex differential diagnosis. A range of disorders- also of nondegenerative etiology- can mimic MSA, expanding its differential diagnosis. Both misdiagnosis and diagnostic delays are relatively common in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gait impairments are among the most common and impactful symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). Recent technological advances aim to quantify these impairments using low-cost wearable systems for use in either supervised clinical consultations or long-term unsupervised monitoring of gait in ecological environments. However, very few of these wearable systems have been validated comparatively to a criterion of established validity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMobile health (mHealth) has emerged as a potential solution to providing valuable ecological information about the severity and burden of Parkinson's disease (PD) symptoms in real-life conditions. : The objective of our study was to explore the feasibility and usability of an mHealth system for continuous and objective real-life measures of patients' health and functional mobility, in unsupervised settings. : Patients with a clinical diagnosis of PD, who were able to walk unassisted, and had an Android smartphone were included.
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