Clinical subtypes of essential tremor
| Autor: | Livia F. Barnes, Elan D. Louis, Blair Ford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Essential Tremor Head tremor Neurological disorder Disease cluster Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Internal medicine Medicine Humans Age of Onset Aged Aged 80 and over Essential tremor business.industry Genetic heterogeneity medicine.disease nervous system diseases Surgery Homogeneous Etiology Arm Disease Progression Female Neurology (clinical) Age of onset business Head |
| Zdroj: | Archives of neurology. 57(8) |
| ISSN: | 0003-9942 |
| Popis: | There is clinical variability in essential tremor (ET), but it is not clear whether this variability is because of the existence of distinct clinical subtypes of ET (ie, forms of ET that may differ in their etiology, rate of progression, or response to treatment).To examine in a group of ET cases the age of onset, anatomic distribution, and rate of progression of tremor, and to look for associations between these factors.Cases of ET were ascertained from a community (n = 60) and a tertiary referral clinic (n = 55) in northern Manhattan, New York, NY. All subjects underwent an interview and videotaped tremor examination. Rate of progression was estimated based on the tremor severity and reported disease duration at the time of evaluation.Age of onset was bimodally distributed in clinic cases. There were differences in the anatomic distribution of the tremor (arm tremor only vs head and arm tremor vs isolated head tremor). Rate of progression was distributed exponentially; there was a large cluster of subjects with slower rates of progression, and a smaller number who had faster rates. There was an association between age of onset and rate of progression (r = 0.46-0.50, P.002); cases with older age of onset (60 years) progressed more rapidly (P.001). In addition, upper limb tremor progressed more slowly among those with concomitant head tremor (P =.03).Essential tremor is not a homogeneous condition. There are differences in age of onset, anatomic distribution of tremor, and rate of progression. The ET in several groups of patients in this study (those with age of onset60 years and those without head tremor) progressed more rapidly, suggesting that these ET cases may define distinct clinical subtypes. These subtypes should be further assessed for etiologic and genetic heterogeneity as well as differences in responsiveness to therapeutic agents. Arch Neurol. 2000;57:1194-1198 |
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