TY - JOUR T1 - Early-onset drug-induced parkinsonism after exposure to offenders implies nigrostriatal dopaminergic dysfunction JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 169 LP - 174 DO - 10.1136/jnnp-2017-315873 VL - 89 IS - 2 AU - Seok Jong Chung AU - Han Soo Yoo AU - Hyojeong Moon AU - Jungsu S Oh AU - Jae Seung Kim AU - Yong Hee Park AU - Jin Yong Hong AU - Byoung Seok Ye AU - Young H Sohn AU - Phil Hyu Lee Y1 - 2018/02/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/89/2/169.abstract N2 - Objectives The onset of parkinsonism in patients with drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) exhibits extensive individual variability following exposure to offending drugs. We investigated whether the individual variations in the onset time of parkinsonism reflected the underlying subtle dopaminergic dysfunction in DIP.Methods We enrolled 71 patients with DIP who had visually normal striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) availability in 18F-FP-CIT positron emission tomography scans. According to their exposure durations to the offending drugs prior to onset of the parkinsonism, the patients were divided into the early-onset group (duration ≤6 months; n=35) and delayed-onset group (duration >6 months; n=36). We performed the quantitative analysis of the DAT availability in each striatal subregion between the groups.Results No patients with DIP had DAT availability that was more than 2 SD below the normal mean of DAT availability. Compared with the delayed-onset group, the early-onset DIP group had decreased DAT availability in the striatal subregions including the posterior putamen (p=0.018), anterior putamen (p=0.011), caudate (p=0.035) and ventral striatum (p=0.027). After adjusting for age, sex and cross-cultural smell identification test scores, a multivariate analysis revealed that the DAT availability in the striatal subregions of the patients with DIP was significantly and positively associated with the natural logarithm of the duration of drug exposure.Conclusions These results suggest that a short exposure to the offending drugs before the development of parkinsonism would be associated with subtle nigrostriatal dopaminergic dysfunction in patients with DIP. ER -