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Dystonic tremors affect people who have dystonia, a movement disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions. The muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive motions or abnormal postures, such as twisting of the neck. These can occur at any age.
These chemical injections are often given to people who have tremors that affect the face and head. However, Botox can be injected into virtually any muscle group that contributes to tremors, such as the neck, arms, or hands.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be the only option for those with debilitating tremors. During this operation, the surgeon inserts an electrical probe into the portion of your brain responsible for the tremors.
Once the probe is in place, a wire feeds from the probe into your chest, under your skin. The surgeon places a small device in your chest and attaches the wire to it. This device sends pulses to the probe to stop the brain from producing tremors.
Tremor usually start asymmetrically, affecting only one side of the body, especially during early stages of the disease. With disease progression, both sides may become affected. Fatigue, stress or intense emotions can temporarily make tremors worse.
Tremors may affect your hands, arms, head, face, voice, trunk, and legs. Most people have hand tremors making it difficult to carry out daily activities, such as writing, drinking, eating, shaving, or dressing. Tremors of voice may cause a shaky voice.
Background: Consensus criteria for classifying tremor disorders were published by the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society in 1998. Subsequent advances with regard to essential tremor, tremor associated with dystonia, and other monosymptomatic and indeterminate tremors make a significant revision necessary.
In this manuscript we will discuss insights into the pathophysiology of tremor by highlighting proposed mechanisms of MIT for the following better-known tremorogenic medications: amiodarone, amitriptyline, β-adrenergic agonists, cyclosporine, DBAs, fluoxetine, lithium, tacrolimus, theophylline, and valproic acid. Table 1 illustrates the major tremorogenic drugs discussed in this paper and the phenomenology of the tremor seen with these different medications/drugs. We will also briefly discuss tremors that can occur in withdrawal states with certain drugs such as ethanol and propranolol. While the frequency and epidemiology of MIT due to these drugs is fairly well characterized, there are very few data on the mechanisms of how these drugs induce tremors. MITs can originate from both central and peripheral mechanisms, but it appears most MITs are a result of enhancement in physiological tremor.
The vast majority of tremors that are diagnosed as MIT are mechanistically due to EPT, but clinicians should beware that a patient may have underlying ET or PD that is unmasked when treated with an exacerbating agent.17,18 They should also beware of the very unusual case with amiodarone, which can cause tremor by inducing hyperthyroidism in addition to its own mechanism of inducing tremor. In the case of DIP, an [123I]-ioflupane scan (DATSCAN) can be very revealing, in some cases demonstrating loss of striatal dopamine transporter binding in subjects that would have been diagnosed with DIP when they actually have underlying PD.5
EPT is by far the most common mechanism of tremor generation by medications17,18 (Table 2). Physiological tremor has many components that can be influenced by medications with some influencing the central component (amitriptyline) and others altering the peripheral component (β-adrenergic agonists, cyclosporine, etc.). Other mechanisms include blockade of dopaminergic neurotransmission in the nigrostriatal pathway by DBA or dopamine-depleting agents. Cerebellar damage due to longstanding abuse (ethanol) or toxic states can also cause intention tremors that can be quite bothersome.
Essential tremor is the most common trembling disorder. Everyone has at least a small degree of tremor, but the movements usually cannot be seen or felt because the tremor is so small. When tremors are noticeable, the condition is classified as essential tremor.
The appearance of your tremor, in the setting of a comprehensive neurological examination by an experienced clinician, can result in diagnosis of essential tremor. Your doctor will probably need to rule out other conditions that could cause shaking or trembling. For example, tremors could be symptoms of diseases such as hyperthyroidism. Your health care provider might test you for those as well.
For essential tremor in your hands, botulinum toxin (Botox) injections have shown some promise in easing the trembling. They work by slightly relaxing the overactive muscles. The injections are targeted to the specific muscles that are involved in the abnormal movement, while avoiding uninvolved muscles. Botox injections are typically recommended for patients with severe head tremor, and several studies have shown that the injections may significantly help head and voice tremors.
Tremor is often an unintentional side effect to several psychotropic medications in our treatment arsenal. Tremors often present as involuntary, oscillating movements of muscles located in various parts of the body including head, face, vocal cords, arms, trunk, and legs.1 The most commonly encountered pathologic tremors in general practice are physiologic and Parkinsonian tremors. Physiologic tremors can be subdivided into several different categories depending on how they occur. Tremors occurring during voluntary contraction of a muscle are known as action tremors and can be categorized as kinetic, postural, or isometric.2 A tremor occurring while the body is relaxed and supported is known as a resting tremor. It is important to differentiate pathologic tremors as everyone experiences natural tremors during action and at rest that are of low-amplitude and of high frequency.2 Essential tremor is the most common pathologic tremor in the physiologic category. Conversely, Parkinsonian tremors are noted as mostly occurring at rest with a decrease in severity upon voluntary movement and considered asymmetrical in nature.2 In general, most tremors commonly occur in the hands leading to embarrassment and difficulty performing activities of daily living.1 This can lead to patient non-adherence with medications important in the treatment of serious mental illnesses.
The tremor is often fine in nature and can affect a patient's head, mouth, tongue, and limbs. It shares clinical and electrophysiological features of an essential tremor and may exacerbate any underlying pathology. The occurrence of tremor is found to be more associated with valproate dose than plasma concentration.19 Rinnerthaler and colleagues measured rest and postural tremors of patients taking conventional valproate versus controlled-release formulations with accelerometry and surface electromyograms.19 Through computer tremor analysis they determined controlled-release valproate may cause less tremor activity than immediate conventional valproate. Differences between peak-trough levels in controlled-release valproate versus conventional formulations may attribute to the development of tremors in valproate patients.19
Valproate is another medication where you have to treat the patient, not the level. It is a medication that is greater than 90% bound to plasma proteins. Binding decreases with increasing valproate concentrations as well as the presence of other plasma protein bound medications.20 Monitoring for such drug interactions may reduce the presence of co-occurring tremors. Newborns as well as elderly eliminate valproate more slowly and are at risk higher risk for adverse events. Valproate is also extensively metabolized in the liver via microsomal glucuronide conjugation, mitochondrial β-oxidation, and cytochrome P450 pathways (2C9, 2A6, 2B6, and 2C19).20 Dose adjusting valproate when given with CYP450 inhibitors may also help with preventing adverse events such as tremors. Other methods for decreasing the frequency and severity of valproate tremor include gradual dose changes and reducing the serum level while maintaining therapeutic efficacy.21 Valproate tremor is also fully reversible with discontinuation of valproate treatment.
When the above options fall short in decreasing or discontinuing valproate tremor, there are several pharmacologic treatments that have been examined in literature with mixed efficacy. Beta-blockers are often utilized as a first-line pharmacologic intervention for valproate tremor. In a study conducted by Karas and colleagues, patients with valproate tremors were treated with propranolol, amantadine, diphenhydramine, benztropine, and cyproheptadine.22 Ten patients received propranolol 20mg twice daily and increased to a maximum of 100mg per day. With propranolol therapy, eight of 10 patients experienced diminution of tremor activity.22 Sixty milligrams daily seemed to provide excellent control of the valproate-induced tremor with little sedation. Propranolol mechanism of action is blockade of both peripheral and central β-adrenergic receptors. It is possible that an increase in circulating epinephrine or other catecholamines is important in the development of tremors due to the effectiveness of propranolol in reduction of valproate tremors.22,23 In the same study, four patients received 100mg twice daily of amantadine and three of the four patients experience moderate decreases in tremor activity.22 The four patients who received cyproheptadine (dose undefined) experienced modest relief from valproate-induced tremor for approximately three hours.22 Two patients received diphenhydramine 50mg twice daily and experienced slight reduction in tremor with marked sedation.22 The two patients who received benztropine 1mg twice daily also experience similar effects as the patients taking diphenhydramine.22 Finally, a case report by Lancman and colleagues utilized acetazolamide 8mg/kg/day initially and advanced to 14mg/kg/day as treatment for valproate induced tremors.24 The patient experienced clinically significant decreases in tremor by day eight.
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