A Case Report of Gait Disturbance in a Patient with Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Induced by Secondary Parkinsonism Treated with Korean Medicine

Choi, In-woo; Yang, Ji-hye; Chae, In-cheol; Kim, Chan-young; Ryu, Ju Young; Jung, Eun-Young; Kim, Yoon Sik; Seol，In-Chan,; Yoo, Ho-Ryong

doi:10.22246/jikm.2020.41.5.811

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A Case Report of Non-Motor Symptoms Evaluated Using the Non-Motor Symptom Scale in a Patient with Secondary Parkinsonism Presumed to be Probable Lewy Body Dementia and Improved with Combined Treatment with Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture

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Lee²,

Han³

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J Int Korean Med

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Parkinson's syndrome is a degenerative brain disease that presents characteristic motor symptoms of tremor, rigidity, and gait disturbance. In addition to these motor symptoms, Parkinson's syndrome also presents non-motor symptoms (NMSs) such as sleep disturbance and cognitive decline. NMSs reduce patient's quality of life and psychosocial functioning and cause economic burden on the patient, so appropriate evaluation and treatment are required. Lewy body dementia is one of the several diseases belonging to Parkinson's syndrome. Its symptoms such as cognitive function, memory impairment, and hallucinations occur with Parkinsonism. Although drug therapy is being used with drug treatment to treat non-motor symptoms, it has limitations such as side effects, which stimulated interest in other complementary treatment methods such as oriental medicine treatment, dance, and yoga.<br/>The patient in this case complained of tremor in the right upper extremity, muscle hypertension and pain, and persistent vision, memory, and cognitive decline. The patient was diagnosed with probable Lewy body dementia. The patient was hospitalized for 4 months and received acupuncture and herbal medicines. After treatment, the patient's NMS scale scores decreased from 90 to 63, and the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale scores (summed I, II, and III) decreased from 17 points to 8 points. The Beck Depression Inventory score decreased from 22 points to 13 points. In addition, the patient's subjective evaluation revealed improvement.<br/>In this case, a patient diagnosed with probable Lewy body dementia who did not respond to the standard treatment and did not want to take medications showed improvement in not only motor symptoms but also NMSs after integrative Korean medicine treatment.

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