30th April 2024

A 73-year-old patient with Parkinson’s disease has been on levodopa/carbidopa and is reviewed in clinic

A 73-year-old patient with Parkinson’s disease has been on levodopa/carbidopa and is reviewed in clinic. He had been seen 6 months prior and started on an agent to manage a tremor which had not responded well to dopaminergics. His wife now reports increasing confusion in the last 6 months since commencing this new agent. What is the most likely medication he was started on?

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