New device to control combined lingual and palatal myoclonus

Mondria, Tjeerd; Gier, H. H. W. de

doi:10.1002/mds.21320

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“…Though considered controversial [110], there are no other epidemiological data to the contrary [111]. Thus there is a reported association of ET with PD [112,113,114,115], ET with AD [95,116,117] and ET with PSP [39,118]. It will be important to identify the subgroups of patients who are at increased risk for each of these entities.…”

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‘Essential Tremor' or ‘the Essential Tremors': Is This One Disease or a Family of Diseases?

Louis¹

2013

Neuroepidemiology

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There is accumulating evidence that the entity referred to as ‘essential tremor' (ET) is not a single disease. It may be a family of diseases better referred to as ‘the ETs'. This review will summarize the following evidence: (1) the presence of etiological heterogeneity; (2) the heterogeneity of findings in postmortem studies, thus suggesting several diseases; (3) the recent discussion that age of onset may be an important marker of disease heterogeneity; (4) the clinical expansion of the concept of ET in recent years to include a broader range of tremor phenomenology, other motor features (gait ataxia), other involuntary movements (dystonia), and nonmotor features (cognitive problems, psychiatric problems), some of which could be primary; (5) the heterogeneity of pharmacological response profiles and clinical progression, and (6) the association of ET with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and possibly progressive supranuclear palsy, with the possibility that some ET patients are more predisposed to develop one of these.

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‘Essential Tremor' or ‘the Essential Tremors': Is This One Disease or a Family of Diseases?

Louis¹

2013

Neuroepidemiology

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“…Other non-pharmacological options include the administration of botulinum toxin, a safe and effective therapy in selected patients with SPT, and marginal benefits using special dental devices that have been used by some authors in patients with lingual-palatal tremor [16][17][18] .…”

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Symptomatic palatal tremor: A descriptive cohort study of 27 cases in a tertiary hospital

Ruiz-Sandoval¹,

Chiquete-Anaya²,

López-Valencia³

et al. 2020

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Background: Symptomatic palatal tremor (SPT) is an uncommon hyperkinetic movement disorder caused by the interruption of the dentato-rubro-olivary pathway due to a lesion in the brainstem or cerebellum. Methods: We describe a cohort of consecutive patients with SPT who were assessed by a single neurologist in a tertiary reference center. Results: A total of 27 patients were included in this cohort from 1998 to 2016; 16 males and 11 females, with a mean age of 47 years (range 19-89). The average time from initial insult to a diagnosis of SPT was 14.5 months (range 2-48 months). The most common etiology of SPT was cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in 21 (78%) patients. Other etiologies included infectious and demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system. The remaining unclassified case was accompanied by progressive ataxia pointing toward a neurodegenerative etiology. Twenty-six patients had a history of posterior fossa injury, and all patients had rhombencephalic signs with severe dysarthria. None of them responded significantly to pharmacological treatment. Conclusion: SPT is a more common finding than expected, especially in patients with posterior fossa injury secondary to CVD. The main clinical syndrome was the rhomboencephalic phenotype, with a predominance of dysarthria. There was no effective treatment in any of the patients.

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“…However, again, a specific therapy for this disorder eludes us. ( Mondria et al, 2007 ). Our patient was initially started on levetiracetam which has been shown to be of benefit in cortical subcortical and brainstem lesions( Levy and Chen, 2016 ), which unfortunately failed to ameliorate his symptoms.…”

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A rare case of isolated myoclonus in an elderly male without a history of epilepsy

Kapoor

Kinsella

2018

Clinical Neurophysiology Practice

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HighlightsWe describe a unique presentation of isolated lingual myoclonus presenting as intermittent expressive aphasia associated with uninterrupted intrusion-protrusion movement of the posterior tongue and adjoining hyoid.We discuss the paucity of evidence and suggest differential diagnosis as well as a brief discussion on possible underlying pathophysiology.Highlight previously described movement disorders and associated cases and draw parallels to isolated lingual myoclonus.Consolidate literature regarding the management of lingual myoclonus

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New device to control combined lingual and palatal myoclonus

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

‘Essential Tremor' or ‘the Essential Tremors': Is This One Disease or a Family of Diseases?

‘Essential Tremor' or ‘the Essential Tremors': Is This One Disease or a Family of Diseases?

Symptomatic palatal tremor: A descriptive cohort study of 27 cases in a tertiary hospital

A rare case of isolated myoclonus in an elderly male without a history of epilepsy

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