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Adverse reaction to flunarizine: severe parkinsonism

The author describes the cases of eight patients with severe Parkinson syndrome who had their symptoms vanished after suspension of flunarizine, except for one case whose symptoms remitted partially. The author intention is clearly to alert to this unfavorable reaction, since there may be a lot of patients treated like having Parkinson disease in use of flunarizine.


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