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Electrophysiologic characteristics of tremor in Parkinson's disease and essential tremor
Ederson Cichaczewski1, Renato P Munhoz2, Joaquim M Maia1
1Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Unlabelled:
Tremor in essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson's disease (PD) usually present specific electrophysiologic profiles, however amplitude and frequency may have wide variations.
Objective:
To present the electrophysiologic findings in PD and ET.
Method:
Patients were assessed at rest, with posture and action. Seventeen patients with ET and 62 with PD were included. PD cases were clustered into three groups: predominant rest tremor; tremor with similar intensity at rest, posture and during kinetic task; and predominant kinetic tremor.
Results:
Patients with PD presented tremors with average frequency of 5.29±1.18 Hz at rest, 5.79±1.39 Hz with posture and 6.48±1.34 Hz with the kinetic task. Tremor in ET presented with an average frequency of 5.97±1.1 Hz at rest, 6.18±1 Hz with posture and 6.53±1.2 Hz with kinetic task. Seven (41.2%) also showed rest tremor.
Conclusion:
The tremor analysis alone using the methodology described here, is not sufficient to differentiate tremor in ET and PD.
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