1999
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x1999000400012
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Aspectos clínicos e terapêuticos em 135 pacientes com distonia: experiência do Setor de Distúrbios do Movimento do Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná

Abstract: RESUMO -Este estudo visa descrever aspectos clínicos e respostas terapêuticas de 135 pacientes com distonia. Quanto à classificação, 54% apresentava distonia focal, 17,8% segmentar, 8,1% hemidistonia, 1,5% multifocal e 18,6% generalizada. Vinte e seis por cento apresentavam distonia secundária; e 5,9% tinham história familiar. O tratamento das distonias idiopáticas divide-se em específico e sintomático, podendo ser local, com toxina botulínica; ou sistêmico, com drogas orais. As drogas utilizadas foram anticol… Show more

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“…This complication is seen with varying frequency, with varying rates being reported, based on differences in the population under study, specific drugs prescribed, and indications for the drugs being prescribed. [ 2 ] Drugs with antidopaminergic properties, such as first and second generation antipsychotics are among the agents most commonly implicated in drug-induced dystonia. [ 1 ] Less frequently, other drug classes, like anti-emetics such as metoclopramide and prochlorperazine, anticonvulsants such as phenytoin, antidepressants such as nefazodone, citalopram, escitalopram, bupropion and duloxetine, and antivertigo agents such as cinnarizine and flunarizine are involved in this type of complication.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This complication is seen with varying frequency, with varying rates being reported, based on differences in the population under study, specific drugs prescribed, and indications for the drugs being prescribed. [ 2 ] Drugs with antidopaminergic properties, such as first and second generation antipsychotics are among the agents most commonly implicated in drug-induced dystonia. [ 1 ] Less frequently, other drug classes, like anti-emetics such as metoclopramide and prochlorperazine, anticonvulsants such as phenytoin, antidepressants such as nefazodone, citalopram, escitalopram, bupropion and duloxetine, and antivertigo agents such as cinnarizine and flunarizine are involved in this type of complication.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%