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Oromandibular dystonia: A rare clinical entity

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2019
Oromandibular dystonia (OMD) is a chronic, disabling focal dystonia involving masticatory, facial, pharyngeal, lingual, and lip muscles. OMD interferes with normal orofacial functions, such as deglutition and speech leading to impaired quality of life ...
B Shailaja, Suprakash Chaudhury, Shalesh Rohatgi, Daniel Saldanha   +3 more
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Effects of onabotulinum toxin type A injections in patients with Meige's syndrome

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Background Meige's syndrome is a type of facial dystonia characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of blepharospasm and oromandibular dystonia.
Alexia Duarte, Léo Coutinho, Francisco Manoel Branco Germiniani, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive   +3 more
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Changes in pallidal neural activity following long-term symptom improvement from botulinum toxin treatment in DYT6 dystonia: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background The globus pallidus internus is the main target for the treatment of dystonia by deep brain stimulation. Unfortunately, for some genetic etiologies, the therapeutic outcome of dystonia is less predictable.
Andrea Giorni, Terry Coyne, Peter A. Silburn, George D. Mellick, Pankaj Sah, François Windels   +5 more
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Oro-Mandibular Dystonia Developing with both Sertraline and Fluoxetine Use in a Female Adolescent with Major Depressive Disorder

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2022
Oro-mandibular dystonia (OMD) involves repetitive uncontrollable contractions of the lower facial muscles. Its etiology is not fully elucidated although various neurological (encephalitis, etc.), psy-chogenic, and psychopharmacological (SSRIs ...
Setenay Sarioglu, Ali Evren Tufan, Yusuf Ozturk, Dilara Ozdemir   +3 more
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Brief considerations on the dispensation profile of the botulinum toxin type A by the Brazilian Unified Health System for treatment of dystonias: Datasus data

eNeurologicalSci, 2016
Botulinum toxin injections are the most effective approach for the treatment of focal dystonia. Despite growing demand and clinical indications over the years, there are few reports or publications of its use and benefit to patients seen at the Sistema ...
Hsin Fen Chien, Ana Lucia Zuma de Rosso, André Sobierajski dos Santos, Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder, Debora Palma Maia, Delson José da Silva, Marcio da Cunha Andrade, Marcus Vinicius Della Coletta, Maria do Desterro Leiros da Costa, Nasser Allam, Roberto César Pereira do Prado, Vanderci Borges, Vitor Tumas, Wagner de Goes Horta   +13 more
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Clinical Characteristics of Functional Movement Disorders in the Stomatognathic System

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Functional (psychogenic) movement disorders often have distinguishable clinical features in the orofacial region. Tonic mandibular deviation accompanying ipsilateral downward and lateral lip pulling is the most common phenotype seen in ...
Kazuya Yoshida
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“Orofacial Dystonia—A Silent Killer”: Mandibular Fractures with Orofacial Dystonia, A Report of a Case and Review

Case Reports in Dentistry, 2021
Mandibular parasymphysis fracture is very commonly observed especially in old age when there is resorptions of the alveolar ridges. In cervical dystonia, there is centrally mediated disease in which there is uncontrolled and spasmodic contraction of the ...
Anand deep Shukla, G. Srikanth, A. Chitra, Anupam Singh, Sunil Nayak   +4 more
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Unusual cervical involvement in psoriatic arthritis and the presence of cervical and facial dystonia: a case report

Kastamonu Medical Journal
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) exhibits the most prevalent occurrence of cervical spine involvement within the spondyloarthropathies. The disease can progress and cause C1-C2 arthritis, erosions of the odontoid process, atlantoaxial instability ...
G. Güleç
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Dysfunctional Networks in Functional Dystonia

, 2023
Functional dystonia, the second most common functional movement disorder, is characterized by acute or subacute onset of fixed limb, truncal, or facial posturing, incongruent with the action-induced, position-sensitive, and task-specific manifestations ...
Luca Marsili, Alberto J. Espay, Matteo Bologna, Lucia Ricciardi   +3 more
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The Necessity of a Locally Active Antidote in the Clinical Practice of Botulinum Neurotoxin Therapy: Short Communication

Medicina, 2022
Recently, it was demonstrated that copper complexes and 3,4-diaminopyridine can effectively reduce the activity of the botulinum neurotoxin light chain.
Harald Hefter, Sara Samadzadeh
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