We report seven patients with orthostatic tremor (OT) who were successfully treated with the anticonvulsant gabapentin. Five of the patients had been previously tried on clonazepam, the most commonly used drug for OT, four without any benefit. The degree of improvement perceived by the patients with
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Orthostatic tremor: Combined treatment with primidone and clonazepam
โ Scribed by Marius Poersch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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โฆ Synopsis
- first described orthostatic tremor (OT) in 1984, -40 cases have been reported in the literature. The clinical appearance of OT mostly has been similar to the first description with the main symptoms of leg and trunk tremor while standing and without complaints while walking and sitting (2-5). Other investigators have described a more extended spectrum of symp-
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