T ardive dyskinesia (TD), a hyperkinetic movement disorder causally related to dopamine receptorblocking drug (DRBD) exposure, is a well-recognized iatrogenic disorder in adults 1 and less commonly seen in children and infants. 2,3 Although the literature on TD mainly focuses on patients treated with DRBDs used as antipsychotics, DRBDs are also used to treat a wide array of medical, chiefly gastrointestinal, conditions. 4-6 Although most of the drugs that cause TD are DRBDs that antagonize dopamine D 2 receptors, other classes of drugs have the potential to cause TD, including antidepressants and calcium channel blockers. The reported lifetime prevalence of TD in patients treated with traditional DRBDs has varied greatly, with an average of about 25% of exposed adults. 1,7 Risk factors associated with the development of TD include advanced age, female gender, and, more important, total cumulative drug exposure. [8][9][10][11] We sought to determine which drugs most commonly cause TD in patients referred to our clinic.
MATERIALS AND METHODSAfter approval by the institutional review board, a retrospective chart review of 583 charts was performed on patients evaluated for TD in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine between 1981 and January 2006. We included all patients who met clinical criteria for TD 12 : (1) exhibited a hyperkinetic movement disorder, (2) had a documented exposure to 1 or more DRBDs for at least 3 months before the onset of symptoms, and (3) the hyperkinetic movement disorder persisted for at least 1 month after stopping the offending DRBD. 12 A total of 434 charts were used specifically for this study; 149 charts were excluded because of incorrect diagnostic coding, accidental destruction of charts, and loss to follow-up. We excluded patients with drug-induced parkinsonism. 13 All data related to demographics (age/gender), treatment indication (psychiatric/gastrointestinal/ other), phenomenology (stereotypy/dystonia/chorea/ tic/tremor), and offending agent were captured on case report forms and transferred to a database.
RESULTSWe report data on 434 TD patients for whom we have detailed clinical information. Patients, of whom 334 were women (77.0%), had a mean age of 63.8 ± 14.8 years at their initial evaluation. Since its inception, 23 653 movement disorder patients have been evaluated at Baylor College of Medicine, 11 802 of whom were women (50.0%). There was no statistical difference in the proportion of women presenting with a psychiatric treatment indication when compared with those with a gastrointestinal disorder. The majority presented with oro-faciallingual stereotypy (n = 198, 45.6%), dystonia (n = 165, 38.0%), or other stereotypies (n = 159, 36.6%).