SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD-ONSET SYMPTOMATIC DYSTONIA WITH LEVODOPA

Authors
FLETCHER NA THOMPSON PD SCADDING JW MARSDEN CD
Citation
Na. Fletcher et al., SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD-ONSET SYMPTOMATIC DYSTONIA WITH LEVODOPA, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 56(8), 1993, pp. 865-867
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223050
Volume
56
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
865 - 867
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3050(1993)56:8<865:STOCSD>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Three patients with childhood onset symptomatic dystonia responded to levodopa. None fulfilled criteria for a diagnosis of ''dopa responsive dystonia'' (Segawa's disease). One may have had athetoid cerebral pal sy for almost 25 years. All obtained dramatic and sustained benefit fr om levodopa therapy. A therapeutic trial of levodopa is advised in all patients in whom dystonia has developed in childhood or early adult l ife, regardless of suspected aetiology or duration of symptoms.