Tetrabenazine-induced oculogyric crisis – A rare complication in the treatment of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 497-499

  Janik, Piotr ^a   Figura, Monika ^a,b  

^a Anna Gostynska Wolski Hospital   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acute dyskinesia; Drug induced dystonia; Dystonic tics; Eyeball dystonia; Tetrabenazine induced side effects; Tic disorder

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; CLONAZEPAM; ESCITALOPRAM; HALOPERIDOL; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PERPHENAZINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SULPIRIDE; TETRABENAZINE; TIAPRIDE; TOPIRAMATE; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSTONIA; FAMILY HISTORY; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LIMB DYSTONIA; MALE; MOUTH PROTECTOR; OCULOGYRIC CRISIS; SLURRED SPEECH; TIC; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959421355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S98694     Document Type: Article

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