Pattern and Frequency of Non-epileptic Involuntary Movements

NCT ID: NCT04083586

Last Updated: 2021-08-09

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

144 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-15

Study Completion Date

2021-01-15

Brief Summary

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We will perform a medical record review of all patients seen in Assiut University hospital, Egypt, to determine the frequency of movement disorders seen, disease characteristics, diagnostic evaluations.

Detailed Description

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Movement disorders are conventionally divided into major categories: 1) Hyperkinetic movement disorders (also called dyskinesias) refer to excessive, often repetitive, involuntary movements that intrude into the normal flow of motor activity. This category includes chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, stereotypies, tics, and tremor. 2) Hypokinetic movement 3) Ataxia.

Hyperkinetic movements any unwanted excess movement. Together with hypertonia (abnormally increased resistance to externally imposed movement) and negative signs (insufficient muscle activity or insufficient control of muscle activity).

Tremor: Tremor is a rhythmic back-and-forth or oscillating purposeless involuntary movement about a joint axis. Tremor occurs at rest (the pill-rolling tremor of Parkinsonism). Postural tremor (the fine tremor of hyperthyroidism), Action tremor (intention tremor) occurs near the end of a goal-directed movement.

Chorea : is a series of brief, jerky, explosive ongoing random-appearing sequence of one or more discrete involuntary movements, or "fidgeting; there are different causes of chorea, Sydenham's chorea. Lesions in the sub thalamic nucleus. Encephalitis with diffuse gray-matter. Motor impersistence is a common association.

Athetosis is a slow, continuous, writhing, sinuous movement, especially marked in the digits and extremities, prevents maintenance of a stable posture.

Myoclonus consists of sequence of repeated, often non-rhythmic sudden brief twitches or jerks or involuntary contraction or relaxation of one or more muscles as seen in metabolic encephalopathies such as uremic encephalopathy. It can be categorized as "action myoclonus", "postural myoclonus", or "rest myoclonus" based on the condition when it is observed Asterixis :is an intermittency of sustained posture, illustrated by "flapping" of the hands when the arms are outstretched and wrists dorsiflexed, as in hepatic encephalopathy.

Stereotypies are repetitive, simple movements that can be voluntarily suppressed. Stereotypies do not necessarily hold the person's attention.

Tics are repeated, individually recognizable, intermittent movements that are almost always briefly suppressible and are usually associated with awareness of an urge to perform the movement.

Dystonia: a movement disorder in which involuntary sustained or intermittent muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements, abnormal postures, or both. Dystonic postures are often triggered by attempts at voluntary movement or voluntary posture, as may occur in task-specific dystonia.

Hypokinetic movements: include bradykinesia (slowness of movement) and hypokinesia (poverty of movement, and movements that are smaller than intended), but also crucially and fundamentally the progressive fatiguing and decrement of repetitive alternating movements seen during finger or foot tapping. The best known cause and example is Parkinson's disease.

Ataxia: Ataxia is a degenerative disorder affecting the brain, brainstem or spinal cord. This can result in clumsiness, inaccuracy, instability, imbalance, tremor or a lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements. Ataxia also can affect speech and movement of the eyes.

Previous epidemiological studies in Egypt showed that the Overall the recorded Crude Prevalence Rate (CPR) of Parkinson's disease in Egypt was varied in different governorates and ranged from 53 to 557/105 inhabitants Another study was planned to estimate the prevalence and to study the aetiological factors of chorea, dystonia, athetosis and hemiballismus in Assiut. The prevalence rate for rheumatic chorea was 62/100,000 population, whereas Huntington's chorea had a prevalence rate of 21/100,000. The other two common types of chorea were reported with prevalence rates of 12/100,000 for the encephalitic type and 17/100,000 for the atherosclerotic type. No single case of generalized dystonia was recorded and all cases were of the focal type of dystonia with a prevalence rate of 26/100,000 population, but there's no available data about other movement disorders in Egypt

Conditions

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Involuntary Movements

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CROSSOVER

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Interventions

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All investigations; laboratory and radiological, needed for diagnosis

mri brain, ct brain, drug screening

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients with movement disorders attending Assiut University neurology outpatient clinic and internal department, from Jan 2020 to Jan 2021.

Exclusion Criteria

* 1\) involuntary movements epileptic in origin 2) refusal of patient to give consent to join the study
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Roaa Almoataz Abdelrazik Zohni Elsabrout

post graduate

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Hamdy El-Tallawy, professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Professor of Neurology Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

Ali Shalash, professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Professor of Neurology Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University

mohamed abdelhameed, assist prof

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Assistant professor of Neurology Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

roaa elsabrout, postgraduate

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Resident at neuropsychiatry department Assiut University

Locations

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AssiutU

Asyut, , Egypt

Site Status

Countries

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Egypt

References

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El-Tallawy HN, Farghaly WM, Shehata GA, Rageh TA, Hakeem NM, Hamed MA, Badry R. Prevalence of Parkinson's disease and other types of Parkinsonism in Al Kharga district, Egypt. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2013;9:1821-6. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S48318. Epub 2013 Nov 26.

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Other Identifiers

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frequency involuntary movement

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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