Pregnancy in Parkinson's disease with PARK2 mutations

Ali Sazci; Halil Atilla Idrisoglu

doi:10.1016/j.prdoa.2019.08.003

Pregnancy in Parkinson's disease with PARK2 mutations

Clin Park Relat Disord. 2019 Aug 28:1:52-53. doi: 10.1016/j.prdoa.2019.08.003. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Ali Sazci¹, Halil Atilla Idrisoglu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kocaeli, Umuttepe, 41380 Kocaeli, Turkey.
² Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Istanbul, Capa, 34280 Istanbul, Turkey.

Abstract

We report a pregnancy in a patient with Parkinson's disease with PARK2 mutations. Although pregnancy is uncommon in patients with Parkinson's disease, an early-onset Parkinson's patient with three silent and two missense mutations in the PARK2 gene is presented here.

Keywords: Antidepressant; COMT inhibitor; Depression; Dopamine agonist; Levodopa; MAOB inhibitor; Parkinson's disease; Pregnancy; Treatment.