Bilateral chorea following severe traumatic brain injury treated with risperidone
| Autor: | Miriam Segal, Jacob Koffer, Erica Montgomery, Daniel Krasna |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Movement disorders Traumatic brain injury Case Report 030105 genetics & heredity 03 medical and health sciences Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine Chorea Activities of Daily Living Brain Injuries Traumatic Intellectual disability medicine Humans Family history Risperidone business.industry Sequela General Medicine medicine.disease Huntington Disease medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Case Rep |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bcr-2021-241929 |
| Popis: | A functionally independent man in his 20s with a history of intellectual disability and epilepsy and family history of Huntington’s disease suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. Postinjury, bilateral chorea rendered him dependent for all activities of daily living. Risperidone provided a significant reduction of chorea, decreasing the overall burden of care. Movement disorders are a common sequela of brain injury. Currently, there are no best treatment guidelines for chorea in patients with brain injury. To the authors’ knowledge there have been no case reports describing the effects of brain injury on patients with a primary movement disorder. Risperidone was an effective treatment in this case. Further research is needed to establish guidelines for treatment of movement disorders following brain injury and to better understand the effect of brain injuries on primary movement disorders. |
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