Topiramate Treatment of Essential Tremor in a Patient with Cognitive Deficits

This case report demonstrates a satisfying response to topiramate in a 79-year-old patient with disabling essential tremor in whom propranolol as well as primidone had to be discontinued due to severe side effects. After 28 months of topiramate treatment, a clear decline in Mini Mental State Examina...

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Autores principales: Leblhuber, F., Steiner, K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2010
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Published: January 2010
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20689627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000264609
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description This case report demonstrates a satisfying response to topiramate in a 79-year-old patient with disabling essential tremor in whom propranolol as well as primidone had to be discontinued due to severe side effects. After 28 months of topiramate treatment, a clear decline in Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) could be observed, stressing the use of care in prescribing topiramate in elderly patients.
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spelling pubmed-29143642010-08-05 Topiramate Treatment of Essential Tremor in a Patient with Cognitive Deficits Leblhuber, F. Steiner, K. Case Rep Neurol Published: January 2010 This case report demonstrates a satisfying response to topiramate in a 79-year-old patient with disabling essential tremor in whom propranolol as well as primidone had to be discontinued due to severe side effects. After 28 months of topiramate treatment, a clear decline in Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) could be observed, stressing the use of care in prescribing topiramate in elderly patients. S. Karger AG 2010-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2914364/ /pubmed/20689627 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000264609 Text en Copyright © 2010 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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Topiramate Treatment of Essential Tremor in a Patient with Cognitive Deficits
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title_fullStr Topiramate Treatment of Essential Tremor in a Patient with Cognitive Deficits
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