Myoclonus is a clinical sign characterized by brief, involuntary, jerky contraction or lapse of muscle group muscles, which can be associated with cerebral disorders, epileptic and drugs. Megestrol acetate (MGA) synthetic derivative progestin, has been widely used in practice for increasing appetite patients severe anorexia malignancies. We experienced 68-year-old female patient who myoclonus a...

how to cite this article:  ilik f, ilik mk, çöven i. levatiracetam for the management of lance-adams syndrome. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):57-59.   chronic post-hypoxic myoclonus, also known as lance-adams syndrome (las) is a neurological complication characterized by uncontrolled myoclonic jerks following cardiac arrest. in this article, clinical manifestation and symptomatic treatme...

BACKGROUND Myoclonus may occur after hypoxia. In 1963, Lance and Adams described persistent myoclonus with other features after hypoxia. However, myoclonus occurring immediately after hypoxia may demonstrate different syndromic features from classic Lance-Adams syndrome (LAS). The aim of this review is to provide up-to-date information about the spectrum of myoclonus occurring after hypoxia wit...

Myoclonus refers to sudden, brief, shock-like involuntary movements, caused by muscular contractions (positive myoclonus) or inhibitions (negative myoclonus) arising from the central nervous system. This definition excludes the muscular twitches or fasciculation due to lesions of the lower motor neurons. 1 Myoclonus has been observed in patients with various neurological conditions including ep...

conclusions intravenous etomidate 0.03 mg/kg prior to induction can effectively reduce the incidence and severity of myoclonus linked to etomidate. results the incidence and intensity of myoclonus were significantly lower in the low-dose etomidate group. the incidence rates of myoclonus were 51 (71.85%), 61 (85.9%), 30 (42.3%) and 41 (57.7%), and the percentages of patients who experienced grad...

Spinal myoclonus is a sudden, brief, and involuntary movement of segmental or propriospinal muscle groups. Spinal myoclonus has occasionally been reported in patients undergoing opioid therapy, but the pathophysiology of opioid-induced myoclonus has not been elucidated yet. Here, we present two patients with spinal segmental myoclonus secondary to ischemic and radiation myelopathy. Conventional...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of dexmedetomidine in the prevention of etomidate-induced myoclonus. METHODS We searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarding the use of dexmedetomidine in preventing etomidate-induced myoclonus in the databases PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and CNKI. We extracted data and assessed the quality of the literature and adopted RevMan 5.2 to...

Aim of the study. The pandemic state COVID-19 has resulted in new neurological post-infection syndromes. Recently, several papers have reported ataxia-myoclonus syndrome following SARS-CoV-2 infection. aim this study was to present our two cases and compare them previously cases. Materials methods. We video-accompanied with infection discuss studies published so far. Results. Ataxia-myoclonus s...

BACKGROUND Myoclonus can be a clinical manifestation of numerous neurodegenerative disorders and an adverse drug reaction to medications used in their treatment. CASE REPORT Herein, we report memantine-induced myoclonus in a patient with Alzheimer disease. The myoclonus seen in our patient was generalized (proximal limbs and trunk), present at rest and with action, and stimulus sensitive. A s...

Myoclonus is not a known side effect of ranolazine. We report a case of myoclonus in a 72-year-old female who underwent cardiac catheterization for angina and was started on ranolazine after the procedure. Two days after ranolazine therapy on 1000 mg per day in divided doses, myoclonus developed, which severely impaired her normal activity. Her symptoms resolved 2 days after discontinuation of ...