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Cenesthetic hallucinations in a patient with Parkinson’s disease
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Hallucinations are a side effect of treatment with levodopa and dopamine agonists. They are more common in patients with Parkinson’s disease with advanced age and cognitive impairment.1-3Hallucinations secondary to dopaminergic drugs are usually visual, and less often, auditory.4 We describe a patient who developed cenesthetic hallucinations during pergolide and levodopa treatment.
A 66 year old woman with Parkinson’s disease, predominantly rigid akinetic, had been treated with carbidopa-levodopa since the age of 55 in 1984. When she was evaluated for the first time in our …