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Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report
Tics are sudden, repetitive, non-rhythmic movements and/or vocalizations. Generally, tics begin during childhood as a part of Tourette syndrome (TS) and rarely have an onset during adulthood. We describe a 30-year-old male who presented with multiple motor and vocal tics two weeks following a closed...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10591533/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37876411 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45741 |
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author | Kroeger, Madeline G Thomsen, Teri Natteru, Prashant A |
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description | Tics are sudden, repetitive, non-rhythmic movements and/or vocalizations. Generally, tics begin during childhood as a part of Tourette syndrome (TS) and rarely have an onset during adulthood. We describe a 30-year-old male who presented with multiple motor and vocal tics two weeks following a closed head injury with alteration of consciousness as a result of being crushed against the wall by a 4,100-pound air-conditioning unit. He started having motor tics that developed in a rostrocaudal distribution, followed by simple and complex vocal tics. His tics increased in severity over several months following the injury until presentation. He was started on pimozide and received hyperbaric oxygen treatment which improved both motor and vocal tics. |
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spelling | pubmed-105915332023-10-24 Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report Kroeger, Madeline G Thomsen, Teri Natteru, Prashant A Cureus Neurology Tics are sudden, repetitive, non-rhythmic movements and/or vocalizations. Generally, tics begin during childhood as a part of Tourette syndrome (TS) and rarely have an onset during adulthood. We describe a 30-year-old male who presented with multiple motor and vocal tics two weeks following a closed head injury with alteration of consciousness as a result of being crushed against the wall by a 4,100-pound air-conditioning unit. He started having motor tics that developed in a rostrocaudal distribution, followed by simple and complex vocal tics. His tics increased in severity over several months following the injury until presentation. He was started on pimozide and received hyperbaric oxygen treatment which improved both motor and vocal tics. Cureus 2023-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10591533/ /pubmed/37876411 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45741 Text en Copyright © 2023, Kroeger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Kroeger, Madeline G Thomsen, Teri Natteru, Prashant A Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report |
title | Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report |
title_full | Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report |
title_short | Adult-Onset Tics After Being Crushed by an Air Conditioner: A Case Report |
title_sort | adult-onset tics after being crushed by an air conditioner: a case report |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10591533/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37876411 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45741 |
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