Original scientific paper
Patients Review: Drug-Induced Movement Disorders
Silva Butković-Soldo
Svetlana Tomić
Damir Štimac
Lidija Knežević
Ružica Palić
Stjepan Jurić
Abstract
Objective of this paper is to review drug-induced movement disorders (D-IMD) treated patients on Department of Neurology in University Hospital Osijek. We reviewed patients treated during 10 years period (from 1992 to 2002). Analysed group consisted of 14 patients. Reasons for hospitalisation were swallowing problems in 6 patients, neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) in 3 patients, stroke in 2 patients, bolus choking in 2 patients, and speech disturbance in 1 patient.Working diagnosis for most of our patients was neurological disease, yet only later D-IMD diagnosis was established excluding primary neurological disease, or as associated disease to basic neurological disorder. Nine patients have diagnosed as Parkinson syndrome, 3 patients as NMS, and 4 as orolingual dyskinesia, either autonomously, or in combination with Parkinson syndrome. D-IMD was most frequently caused by neuroleptics. Thus the small number of patients hospitalised regarding this syndrome on Department of Neurology.
Keywords
drug-induced movement disorders; Parkinson syndrome; orolingual dyskinesia; neuroleptic malignant syndrome; neurology
Hrčak ID:
5273
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2005.
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