Opicapone is a potent, reversible, and peripherally-acting third-generation inhibitor of catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT), an enzyme involved in the breakdown of various catecholamines including dopamine. Many patients with Parkinson’s disease treated with levodopa plus a dopa decarboxylase (DDC) inhibitor (eg carbidopa) experience motor complications ove...
Opicapone is indicated as adjunctive therapy in adults with Parkinson’s disease and end-of-dose motor fluctuations or “off” episodes whose symptoms cannot be stabilized on the combination therapy of levodopa and DOPA decarboxylase inhibitor (e.g., carbidopa).
Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Loures, Lisboa, Portugal
Fondazione IRCCS CA' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria- Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
Hospital da Senhora da Oliveira - Guimarães, E.P.E, Serviço de Neurologia, Guimarães, Portugal
Neurocrine clinical site, Crab Orchard, West Virginia, United States
Norfolk&Norwich University Hospitals, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Neurocrine Clinical Site, Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tiqva, Hamerkaz, Israel
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