Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease where the condition of the patient worsens as the disease progresses, and when left untreated the patient reaches a very advanced stage of inactivity, where life threatening and lead to death from acute pneumonia or septicemia or pulmonary embolism, after the rate of 7 -10 years, but with modern treatment improved patient life and increased life expectancy after the disease
So Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that breaks the nerves from the trapped substance in the brain to the basal ganglia, thereby reducing the neurotransmitter of dopamine, leading to an important triad of symptoms, namely stiffness, slow movement and tremors, but also other symptoms including depression and difficulty in Swallowing and sleeping disorders. Diagnosis is done by the symptoms of the disease and the general condition of the patient. There is no specific examination for diagnosis and no brain image. Treatment is based on levodopa with carbidoba or on drugs that are associated with the future of dopamine or amantadine. Full, and the cause of the death of the patient is usually due to acute lung inflammation or blood poisoning.