Session Information
Date: Monday, September 23, 2019
Session Title: Restless Leg Syndrome, RBD and Other Sleep Disorders
Session Time: 1:45pm-3:15pm
Location: Les Muses Terrace, Level 3
Objective: To report a patient with restless legs syndrome (RLS) in whom abnormal posture appeared during treatment of that.
Background: Abnormal posture such as camptocormia appear sometimes during treatment of Parkinson’s disease with a dopamine agonist. But there is few reports that posture abnormality in a patient with RLS during treatment with dopamine agonist.
Method: A 74-year-old woman, she treated for RLS with pramipexole 0.375mg per day. Then, four months before her first visit our hospital, the symptom of abnormal posture appeared. And it was gradually worsening. At the first visit our hospital, her postural abnormality was leaning nine degrees before and 18 degrees to the left. We instructed to stop dopamine agonist, because we considered the postural abnormality due to the medicine.
Results: Two months after stopping oral administration of the drug, her postural abnormality was improving zero degrees before and five degrees to the left.
Conclusion: This case report suggests that it should be considered the possibility of postural abnormality in patients with RLS receiving dopamine agonist treatments.
References: Mano T. Camptocormia Induced by a Dopaminergic Agonist. Clin Neuropharmacol. 2018;41(2):70-72.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
K. Hirata, K. Suzuki, M. Saito, T. Shiina, H. Sakuramoto, M. Hamaguchi, T. Kadowaki. Abnormal posture during treatment of restless legs syndrome in an old woman: A case report [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2019; 34 (suppl 2). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/abnormal-posture-during-treatment-of-restless-legs-syndrome-in-an-old-woman-a-case-report/. Accessed June 14, 2025.« Back to 2019 International Congress
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