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Dr Tabish Saifee
Queen Square Private Healthcare
How is Parkinson’s Disease diagnosed?
Dr Tabish Saifee, a Consultant Neurologist Queen Square, says Parkinson’s disease is clinical diagnosis which is usually an assessment of the patients symptomatic history as well as occasionally needing further scans and tests.
Transcript
So Parkinson's disease is diagnosed very clinically. So it's what we call a clinical diagnosis. So a neurologist or an expert, such as myself, in clinics seeing a patient and hearing the story of the evolution of symptoms and examining the patient by the bedside is really all we generally need to make the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. Sometimes it's not quite so straightforward and there are other diseases that we consider as possible diagnoses, and in that situation sometimes we need specialist scans like an MRI scan of the brain or a DAT scan, which is another specialist scan of the brain, or maybe even some blood tests.
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