Abstract

Clinical Spectrum of Drug-Induced Movement Disorders: A Study of 97 Patients.

Highlights

  • The authors have published a cross-sectional study of 97 patients with different types of movement disorders associated with drugs

  • Another rare entity to consider under drug-induced movement disorder (MD) is tardive tremor which could be responsive to tetrabenazine

  • MD benzodiazepines, and levodopa [6]. This tremor got worse with the cessation of tetrabenazine and was associated with other MD such as chorea, dystonia, stereotypy, etc

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Introduction

The authors have published a cross-sectional study of 97 patients with different types of movement disorders associated with drugs. Another rare entity to consider under drug-induced MD is tardive tremor which could be responsive to tetrabenazine. This was reported in 1992 where postural tremor of 3–5 Hz responded to tetrabenazine and did not respond to other drugs such as trihexyphenidyl, propranolol, primidone,

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