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Essential tremor: diagnosis and treatment.
Essential tremor is a common movement disorder in adults that interferes with the performance of functional and social activities. Differentiation of essential tremor from other tremor syndromes is important in order to provide appropriate patient education and therapy. The mainstays of pharmacotherapy are propranolol and primidone; however, in selected patients, agents such as alcohol, benzodi...
متن کاملDiagnosis and Management of Tremor
T remor is the most common involuntary movement disorder. It is differentiated from other involuntary movement disorders, such as chorea, athetosis, ballismus, tics, and myoclonus, by its repetitive, stereotyped, movements of a regular amplitude and frequency. Tremor can be defined as an involuntary, rhythmic, periodic, mechanical oscillation of a body part. Since small-amplitude tremors may no...
متن کاملPharmacologic management of essential tremor.
Case description You are seeing Mr W., an 87-year-old man with longstanding hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), generalized anxiety, panic disorder, and essential tremor. His tremor was first diagnosed more than 25 years ago, after he had developed a slowly progressive, bilateral postural and kinetic hand tremor. His symptoms have been reviewed periodically over the year...
متن کاملEssential tremor
Methods Seventy-two patients with severe, medication-refractory essential tremor have been enrolled across seven international centers. Standard assessments of tremor severity and disability will be obtained before and after the procedure. Patients are randomized in a one-to-three fashion to receive either sham procedure or MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy. The Tremor Research Group, ne...
متن کاملOlfaction and essential tremor.
OBJECTIVE To characterize the olfactory identification in 40 essential tremor (ET) patients, with the University of Pennsylvania 12 Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), to correlate UPSIT scores to clinical and epidemiological data and to compare it to 89 aged matched controls. METHOD Patients were assessed using ET Clinical Scale of Evaluation and UPSIT. RESULTS In patients with ET, the UPSI...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l4485