Botulinum toxin type a injections to salivary glands: combination with single event multilevel chemoneurolysis in 2 children with severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.

نویسندگان

  • Heakyung Kim
  • Yung Lee
  • Daniel Weiner
  • Robin Kaye
  • Anne Marie Cahill
  • Marc Yudkoff
چکیده

We describe 2 children with severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (CP) who have significant drooling and frequent aspiration pneumonia. They underwent simultaneous botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injections to salivary glands for drooling and prevention of aspiration pneumonia along with single-event multilevel chemoneurolysis (SEMLC) with BTX-A and 5% phenol for severe diffuse spasticity. There was significant improvement in drooling, frequency of aspiration pneumonia, and spasticity without adverse effect. BTX-A injections into the salivary glands, in addition to SEMLC, for these 2 children with medically complicated severe spastic quadriplegic CP, were safe and highly successful procedures, which improved their health-related quality of life.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

دوره 87 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006