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ReviewDegenerative neurological and neuromuscular disease2015

Clinical diagnosis and management in early Huntington's disease: a review.

Johannes Schiefer, Cornelius J Werner, Kathrin Reetz

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Review in Degenerative neurological and neuromuscular disease, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Accidental Falls in Patients with Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders: A Systematic Review.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2022
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  9. Sleep Disorders in Huntington's Disease.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Johannes Schiefer *Euregional Huntington Center.
Cornelius J Werner *Euregional Huntington Center.
Kathrin ReetzEuregional Huntington Center.
Huntington Museum of Art · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review focuses on clinical diagnosis and both pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic options in early stages of the autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative Huntington's disease (HD). The available literature has been reviewed for motor, cognitive, and psychiatric alterations, which are the three major symptom domains of this devastating progressive disease. From a clinical point of view, one has to be aware that the HD phenotype can vary highly across individuals and during the course of the disease. Also, symptoms in juvenile HD can differ substantially from those with adult-onset of HD. Although there is no cure of HD and management is limited, motor and psychiatric symptoms often respond to pharmacotherapy, and nonpharmacological approaches as well as supportive care are essential. International treatment recommendations based on study results, critical statements, and expert opinions have been included. This review is restricted to symptomatic and supportive approaches since all attempts to establish a cure for the disease or modifying therapies have failed so far.

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clinical pictureearly symptomsNeurodegenerationtherapytreatment

Identifiers

PMID32669911
PMCPMC7337146
OpenAlexW1996067148

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