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Disease spasticity
Phenotype C0013421|dystonia
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PubMedID- 24795635 The phenotypic symptoms of choreoathetosis, dystonia, parkinsonism, spasticity, and rigidity that are present in all forms of nbia are predominantly associated with neuronal iron accumulation within this region of the brain [reviewed by rouault (2013)].
PubMedID- 24591458 Results: of 294/315 assessable children, 15/294 had pure spasticity, leaving 279/294 with dystonia classified as primary (30/279:10.7%); primary-plus (19/279:6.8%) and secondary (230/279:82.4%) dystonia, including heredodegenerative dystonia (29/279:10.3%); 150/279 (53.7%) with cerebral palsy and 51/279 (18.2%) acquired brain injury.
PubMedID- 23622164 In a rare subtype of dystonia-choreathetosis cp with little spasticity and mri lesions, bilateral pallidal stimulation (gpi) has shown mild to moderate improvement of dystonia (in open-label small series and in one controlled study) with no cognitive or mood adverse effects.

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