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You are right about doctors ignoring potentially other significant conditions. I agree that this happens too much. Also the atrial fib is a likely scenario. Charlie Bent Willow wrote: > >> "There was evidence of relatively recent infarcts in multiple > >> territories of the brain, suggesting embolism. These lesions, perhaps in > >> conjunction with drugs he may have been taking for his Parkinson's > disease, > >> may constitute the structural basis for the hallucinations." > > > > Unfortunately, when a patient is severely ill with one condition doctors > frequently don't look for other conditions that might be contributing to an > increase in symptoms. Joe might developed small strokes (TIAs) as a > consequence of a rather benign cardiac arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation). > While doctors were trying to determine why his PD symptoms had increased > they probably never bothered to consider TIAs as the cause - especially > since the increase in symptoms didn't reflect a profound event, such as a > full blown stroke would have evidenced. > > To my knowledge, PD drugs do not cause clot formation. If anyone has any > other understanding I would hope that they would share the information with > this list. > ----- > Mary Ann Ryan R.N. (CG Jamie 19/59) -- ****************************************************************************************** Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin [log in to unmask] ******************************************************************************************