Clinical Articles /
BY: Chong S. Lee, MD, FRCPC
May 2001
... who have a good therapeutic response to levodopa. [7] Patients with Parkinson-plus syndromes have a poorer ... treatment, increasing about 10% per year during the first 7 years. On the other hand, it has been shown that the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Christopher R. Honey, MD, DPhil, FRCS
May 2001
... on the effects of pallidotomy have now been published. [7-12] Indications and outcomes of pallidotomy The ideal ... dyskinesia (43% to 92% decrease) have been reported. [7-12] Longer trials have demonstrated continued efficacy ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Christopher Bozek MD, FRCPC
May 2001
... precipitate gout, which responds well to treatment. [7] Genitourinary PD patients most commonly experience ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: A. Jon Stoessl, MD, FRCPC
May 2001
... use is associated with fewer dyskinesias than levodopa [7,8] and, at least in the case of pramipexole, a lower ...
Letters /
BY: John E. Gray, MD
May 2001
... ( "Massage Therapy—A Review" [ BCMJ 2000;42(7):342-344]), as well as letters that were published in the ...
Letters /
BY: Arthur Van Wart, MD
May 2001
... clearly the urban family practice reality. During my last 7 years of practice I coordinated the UBC Department of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Stuart Fine, MB, FRCPC
June 2001
... adherence with methylphenidate was shown in one study [7] where 20% of families stopped taking the medication ... at the time of the interview; and on a scale of 1 to 7 (where 1 is poor and 7 is excellent) how they would rate the experience of being ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Teresa Marie Kope, MD, FRCPC
June 2001
... programs are that they are offered early and intensively. [7] Thus, when a parent approaches a physician with a ... common enough in autism to be diagnostic at a young age. [7,12] Thus, to identify autism in very young children, and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: William J. Sullivan, BA, LLB, MCL
July / August 2001
... developed for the BC Ambulance Service is excellent.[ 7 ] It allows terminally ill patients and those near the end ... Canadian Medical Association puts it very succinctly: “7. In providing medical service do not discriminate against ...
Letters /
BY: R.A. Bernat, MD
July / August 2001
... a practice in Vancouver and who is able to provide 24 hour/7 day service to their patients is welcome to apply for ...