Tardive dystonia

Introduction: Tardive dystonia

Description of Tardive dystonia

Tardive dystonia (medical condition): The toxic neurological side effects of neuroleptic...more »

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Tardive Dyskinesia:
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Tardive dystonia: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Tardive dystonia:

• Tardive
• Tardive syndrome
• Dystonia (130 causes)

Tardive dystonia: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Tardive dystonia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Tardive dystonia, or a subtype of Tardive dystonia, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Tardive dystonia as a Disease

Tardive dystonia: Another name for Tardive Dyskinesia (or close medical condition association).
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Tardive dystonia: Related Diseases

Tardive dystonia: Tardive dystonia is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Brain conditions
• Movement conditions
• Nervous system conditions
• Musculoskeletal conditions
• Drug-related conditions

Causes of Tardive dystonia

Some of the causes of Tardive dystonia are included in the list below:

• Haloperidol
• Trifluperidol
• Chlorpromazine
• Pipothiazine
• Perazine

See full list of 6 causes of Tardive dystonia (Tardive Dyskinesia)

Symptoms of Tardive dystonia (Tardive Dyskinesia)

Some of the symptoms of Tardive dystonia incude:

• Involuntary movements - repetitive and purposeless
• Jaw movements
• Chewing-like movements
• Facial grimacing
• Tongue movements

See full list of 21 symptoms of Tardive dystonia (Tardive Dyskinesia)

Treatments for Tardive dystonia (Tardive Dyskinesia)

Treatments for Tardive dystonia (Tardive Dyskinesia) include:

• Discontinue neuroleptic drug
• Substituting another drug for the neuroleptic drug
• Benzodiazepines
• Adrenergic antagonists
• Dopamine agonists

Read more about treatments for Tardive dystonia

Treatment of Tardive dystonia: For more treatment information about Tardive dystonia, see treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia (Tardive dystonia)

Tardive dystonia: Article Excerpts about Tardive Dyskinesia

Tardive dyskinesia is a neurological syndrome caused by the long-term use of neuroleptic drugs. Neuroleptic drugs... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Tardive Dyskinesia Information Page: NINDS)

Tardive dystonia as a Symptom

Tardive dystonia (symptom): See Tardive dystonia (symptom information).

More information on symptom: Tardive dystonia:

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Tardive dystonia: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Tardive dystonia:

• antipsychotics
• dopamine antagonists
• nigrostriatl pathway

Terms associated with Tardive dystonia:

Terms Similar to Tardive dystonia:

• Tardive oral dyskinesia
• Tardive dyskinesia
• Linguofacial dyskinesia
• Oral-facial dyskinesia
• TD

Source - NIH

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