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You review a 75 year old man on a home visit with the GP. He reports feeling unsteady and nauseous for the past couple of days. On examination, he has slurred speech. Tone, power and reflexes are normal but he has difficulty with coordination on the left and a broad based unsteady gait. What is the likely site of the lesion?
A 76 year old man attends clinic with reduced mobility for the last 3 months. As he walks into the clinic room, you see he has the following gait (see video in comments). Which of the following clinical features would you be most likely to find?
A 76 year old man attends clinic with reduced mobility for the last 3 months. As he walks into the clinic room, you see he has a shuffling gait with reduced arm swing. On examination, there is rigidity, more so in the left upper limb than the right. There is no tremor but you think there is bradykinesia. He is on a long list of medication and you are not sure if they might be causing some of the symptoms. Which of the following investigations could you use to support the likely diagnosis?
You do a DAT scan which appears like this (see post comments) and diagnose the patient with Parkinson's disease. Which of the following is a medication that can be used to treat motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease?
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