The official DUOPA™ (carbidopa/levodopa) health care professional site from AbbVie Inc. Learn about an advanced Parkinson’s therapy for your patients
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The official DUOPA™ (carbidopa/levodopa) health care professional site from AbbVie Inc. Learn about an advanced Parkinson’s therapy for your patients
Divide to conquer the day with DHIVY—an oral tablet for people with Parkinson’s disease. Learn how DHIVY is dosed and how DHIVY works, and find patient support for DHIVY. See Important Safety Information.
Information for Patients The patient should be informed that carbidopa and levodopa tablets are an immediate-release formulation of carbidopa and levodopa that is designed to begin release of ingredients within 30 minutes. It is important that carbidopa and levodopa tablets be taken at regular intervals...
Carbidopa, entacapone, and levodopa dosing informationUsual Adult Dose for Parkinson's Disease: Converting from Carbidopa, Levodopa, and Entacapone: -Switch to combination tablet that provides equivalent doseConverting from Carbidopa and Levodopa: -Patients with moderate to severe dyskinesias taking ...
A cost-effectiveness analysis of levodopa/carbidopa intestinal gel compared to standard care in late stage Parkinson’s disease in the UK Evaluation of cost-effectiveness of levodopa/carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG), compared to standard care (SC) in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease ......
Patients with chronic wide-angleglaucomamay be treated cautiously with SINEMET provided theintraocular pressureis well-controlled and the patient is monitored carefully for changes inintraocularpressure during therapy. Dyskinesia Levodopa alone, as well as SINEMET, is associated with dyskinesias. The occurr...
OBJECTIVE: We compared IPX054, a bilayer tablet of immediate- and extended-release carbidopa/levodopa (CD/LD) given twice daily to standard CD/LD given 4 times daily in patients with stable Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS: Twelve PD patients with no or mild fluctuations on CD/LD 25/100 mg...
Overdose Information for Duopa Management of acute overdosage with DUOPA is the same as management of acute overdosage with levodopa. Pyridoxine is not effective in reversing the actions of oral immediate-release carbidopa-levodopa. In the event of an overdosage with DUOPA, the infusion should be...