Clinical commentary on "Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia-like phenotype in multiple sclerosis" and "Secondary paroxysmal dyskinesia in multiple sclerosis: Clinical-radiological features and treatment. Case report of seven patients"

Isabel Pareés

doi:10.1177/1352458517702555

Clinical commentary on "Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia-like phenotype in multiple sclerosis" and "Secondary paroxysmal dyskinesia in multiple sclerosis: Clinical-radiological features and treatment. Case report of seven patients"

Mult Scler. 2017 Nov;23(13):1797-1798. doi: 10.1177/1352458517702555. Epub 2017 Apr 11.

Author

Isabel Pareés¹

Affiliation

¹ Neurology Department, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 28397577
DOI: 10.1177/1352458517702555

Abstract

This clinical commentary discusses the phenomenology and treatment of paroxysmal dyskinesia in patients with multiple sclerosis. It calls for a consensus on the definition as well as for larger studies to better understand this unusual clinical association.

Keywords: Paroxysmal dyskinesia; multiple sclerosis.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Chorea*
Dystonia*
Humans
Multiple Sclerosis*
Phenotype

Supplementary concepts

Familial paroxysmal dystonia