Specialist approaches to prognostic counseling in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives/background

Most middle-aged and older adult patients with isolated (idiopathic) REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) eventually develop parkinsonism, dementia with Lewy bodies, or multiple system atrophy. We aimed to describe the current sleep medicine specialist approach toward RBD prognostic counseling, and to determine physician beliefs and characteristics that impact provision of counseling.

Patients/methods

We surveyed 70 sleep medicine physicians with RBD expertise for demographic information, counseling practices, and their beliefs and understandings concerning the association between RBD and synucleinopathies, among other questions. Responses were summarized by descriptive statistics.

Results

Among the 44 respondents (63% response rate), 41 (93.2%) reg

SUBMITTER: Teigen LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075000 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature