Introduction: The OPTIPARK study confirmed the effectiveness and safety of opicapone as adjunct therapy to levodopa in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and motor fluctuations under real-world conditions. The aim of this sub-analysis was to evaluate opicapone in the German patient cohort of OPTIPARK in order to provide country-specific data. Methods: OPTIPARK was an open-label, single-arm study conducted in routine clinical practice across Germany and the UK. Patients with PD and motor fluctuations received once-daily opicapone 50 mg for 3 months in addition to levodopa. The primary endpoint was Clinicians’ Global Impression of Change (CGI-C). Secondary assessments included Patients’ Global Impressions of Change (PGI-C), Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) I–IV, Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-8), and Non-Motor Symptoms Scale (NMSS). This sub-analysis reports outcomes from the German patients only. Results: Overall, 363 (97.6%) of the 372 patients included in the German cohort received ≥1 dose of opicapone and 291 (80.2%) completed the study. Improvements on CGI-C and PGI-C were reported by 70.8% and 76.3% of patients, respectively. UPDRS scores improved for activities of daily living during OFF time by −3.3 ± 4.5 points and motor scores during ON time by −5.3 ± 7.9 points. PDQ-8 and NMSS scores also demonstrated improvements. Treatment emergent adverse events considered at least possibly related to opicapone occurred in 37.7% of patients, with most being of mild or moderate intensity. Conclusion: Opicapone added to levodopa in patients with PD and motor fluctuations was effective and generally well tolerated in routine clinical practice across Germany.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:91140 |
| Date | 21 May 2024 |
| Creators | Reichmann, Heinz, Eggert, Karla, Oehlwein, Christian, Warnecke, Tobias, Lees, Andrew J., Kemmer, Michael, Soares-da-Silva, Patrício |
| Publisher | Karger |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1421-9913, 10.1159/000523771 |
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