Holguín held the Furst Provincial Workshop on Parkinson’s Disease and Motion Disorders, an initiative of the Neurology Service of the Clinical-Surgical Hospital Lucía Íñiguez Landín, which constituted a significant step towards the strengthening of education and knowledge exchange among specialists in this field.
According to Dr. Ana Margarita Manso López, head of the Provincial Neurology Group, it was a joint activity between the Lucia, the Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the pediatric Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja and the military Fermín Valdés Domínguez hospitals.
She pointed out that all the neurologists of the province and other specialties such as Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Neurophthalmology and Neurosurgery participated, and that third year students of Medicine, internists of the military hospital and residents of Neurology also attended.
She warned that it is a neurodegenerative disease that is manifesting itself in young patients, although it affects more the elderly population.
Likewise, she emphasized on the surveillance of a better and more extended quality of life of the patients, with their pharmacological and therapeutic treatment and rehabilitation.
The workshop dealt with various topics related to the clinical, diagnosis, etiopathogenesis and pathophysiology of this disease, and lectures were given on the drugs currently used for its treatment, he added.
Dr. Michael Martinez Godales, one of the neurologists who attends the Parkinson’s consultation in Holguin and who shared experiences about stereotactic surgery, with which more than a hundred patients have been operated.
The workshop was also a space for the presentation of other topics of interest such as treatments for non-motor complications and the nutritional approach to Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease, which leads to disability, affecting the patient’s quality of life.
Hence the relevance of this workshop that offered an opportunity for professional training, sharing knowledge and moving together towards a future where the management of these conditions can be increasingly effective.With information from Infomed Holguín and Redacción Radio Angulo
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