Session Information
Date: Monday, June 5, 2017
Session Title: Parkinson's Disease: Non-Motor Symptoms
Session Time: 1:45pm-3:15pm
Location: Exhibit Hall C
Objective:
To determine whether parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with cognitive impairment is more sensitive for pain than PD patients without cognitive impairment.
Background:
PD patients have been reported frequently to complain pain related symptoms.
Methods:
Eighty two PD patients who met a Japanese PD diagnosis criteria were evaluated with King’s pain scale and scanned by using MRI and single photon emission tomography. Clinical signs were evaluated by Hoehn-Yahr stage, unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale (UPDRS), mini-mental state examination (MMSE), frontal assessment battery (FAB), the Montreal cognitive assessment (MOCA).
Results:
Based on results of clinical signs, PD patients were divided into patients with cognitive impairment and without cognitive impairment. Patients with cognitive impairment had higher total scores in King’s pain scale than patients without cognitive impairment who showed lower isotope uptake in the frontal cerebral regions.
Conclusions:
This is a study to demonstrate possible relations between pain compliments in PD patients and cognitive impairment.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
K. Abe, K. Fukushima, K. Ando, Y. Maeda, R. Ishikura, H. Yoshikawa. Parkinson’s disease patients with cognitive impairment more sensitive to pain? [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2017; 32 (suppl 2). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/parkinsons-disease-patients-with-cognitive-impairment-more-sensitive-to-pain/. Accessed June 14, 2025.« Back to 2017 International Congress
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