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Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador
There is little information available on the evolutive pattern of patients with movement disorders in developing countries. We analyzed 579 consecutive adults with movement disorders and prospectively evaluated them at our institution (Department of Neurological Sciences, Kennedy Clinic, Guayaquil,...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24147215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2013.e18 |
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author | Del Brutto, Oscar H. Del Brutto, Victor J. |
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description | There is little information available on the evolutive pattern of patients with movement disorders in developing countries. We analyzed 579 consecutive adults with movement disorders and prospectively evaluated them at our institution (Department of Neurological Sciences, Kennedy Clinic, Guayaquil, Ecuador) from 1990 to 2009. Mean age was 62.9±17.5 years, and 50.8% were men. Patients presented with tremor/rigidity (55%), involuntary movements (23.5%) and abnormalities of stance and gait (21.5%). Overall, 45% of our patients had degenerative disorders of the nervous system. We found significant increases in the relative prevalence of tremor/rigidity and abnormalities of stance and gait, and this reflected an increase in the number of patients with degenerative diseases over the study years. We found a dynamic pattern of movement disorders over the years. Today, causes and relative prevalence of these conditions in our population is more similar to that reported from the developed world than it was 20 years ago. |
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spelling | pubmed-37944532013-10-21 Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador Del Brutto, Oscar H. Del Brutto, Victor J. Neurol Int Article There is little information available on the evolutive pattern of patients with movement disorders in developing countries. We analyzed 579 consecutive adults with movement disorders and prospectively evaluated them at our institution (Department of Neurological Sciences, Kennedy Clinic, Guayaquil, Ecuador) from 1990 to 2009. Mean age was 62.9±17.5 years, and 50.8% were men. Patients presented with tremor/rigidity (55%), involuntary movements (23.5%) and abnormalities of stance and gait (21.5%). Overall, 45% of our patients had degenerative disorders of the nervous system. We found significant increases in the relative prevalence of tremor/rigidity and abnormalities of stance and gait, and this reflected an increase in the number of patients with degenerative diseases over the study years. We found a dynamic pattern of movement disorders over the years. Today, causes and relative prevalence of these conditions in our population is more similar to that reported from the developed world than it was 20 years ago. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3794453/ /pubmed/24147215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2013.e18 Text en ©Copyright O. Del Brutto and V.J. Del Brutto. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Del Brutto, Oscar H. Del Brutto, Victor J. Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
title | Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
title_full | Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
title_fullStr | Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
title_full_unstemmed | Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
title_short | Movement Disorders Among Adult Neurological Outpatients Evaluated over 20 Years in Guayaquil, Ecuador |
title_sort | movement disorders among adult neurological outpatients evaluated over 20 years in guayaquil, ecuador |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24147215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2013.e18 |
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