Successful treatment of tardive lingual dystonia with botulinum toxin: Case report and review of the literature
✍ Scribed by Johannes M.H. Hennings; Eike Krause; Kai Bötzel; Thomas C. Wetter
- Book ID
- 116841171
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0278-5846
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
To compare clinical parameters of patients treated with botulinum toxin type A (BTX) for treatment of idiopathic cervical dystonia (ICD) and for tardive cervical dystonia (TCD), we studied 156 patients (149 with ICD and 7 with TCD) who were treated with serial injections of BTX over 5 years. We hypo
## Abstract We report a patient with severe axial tardive dystonia who has had dramatic improvement for 4 years after treatment with the atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine (625 mg/day). Clozapine differs from conventional neuroleptics in that it has higher affinity for D1 and lower affinity for