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Dec 24, 2013 · Huntington’s disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited progressive neurological disease characterized by chorea, an involuntary brief movement that tends to flow between body regions. HD is typically diagnosed based on clinical findings in the setting of a family history and may be confirmed with genetic testing. Predictive testing is available ...
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Abstract. Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive motor, behavioral, and cognitive decline, ending in death. Despite the discovery of the underlying genetic mutation more than 20 years ago, treatment remains focused on symptomatic management.
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Treatments. Clinical trials are ongoing to find disease modifying agents to slow or reverse Huntington’s Disease. Symptomatic treatment for chorea involves medications that deplete …
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Is there a cure for Huntington’s disease?
Jul 03, 2019 · The European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN) commissioned an international task force to provide global evidence-based recommendations for everyday …
Which medications are used to treat Huntington disease (HD)?
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How are utensils used to help people with Huntington's disease?
Jun 04, 2013 · treatment of Huntington’s disease to receive FDA approval (TETRA study) Double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tetrabenazine in manifest HD 84 people with HD, randomized …
How can family and caregivers help a person with Huntington's disease?
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What is Huntington's disease?
Huntington's Disease-Update on Treatments. Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease character ized by progressive motor, behavioral, and cognitive decline, ending in death.
What is the most recognizable symptom?
Chorea, the most recognizable symptom, responds to medication that reduces dopaminergic neurotransmission. Psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety may also respond well to symptomatic therapies. Unfortunately, many other symptoms do not respond to current treatments.
Is Huntington's disease inherited?
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive motor, behavioral, and cognitive decline, ending in death. Despite the discovery of the underlying genetic mutation more than 20 years ago, treatment remains focused on symptomatic management.
What is the treatment for chorea?
Symptomatic treatment for chorea involves medications that deplete dopamine (such as tetrabenazine) or block dopamine (such as antipsychotics). Symptomatic treatment for psychiatric, behavioral, and cognitive symptoms are variable and include SSRIs, antipsychotics, and other treatments.
What kind of doctor is needed for Huntington's disease?
To effectively manage Huntington’s disease you will need a neurologist, psychiatrist, social worker and geneticist.
Abstract
The European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN) commissioned an international task force to provide global evidence-based recommendations for everyday clinical practice for treatment of Huntington's disease (HD).
Introduction
HD is a rare neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system, with a genetic autosomal-dominant inheritance, that first involves basal ganglia (caudate nucleus and putamen) and results from expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in the HTT (huntingtin) gene: alleles with 40 or more repeats are fully penetrant.
Materials and Methods
The EHDN guidelines task force developed guidelines between 2015 and 2018 based on a formalized consensus method, adapted from the 2015 French Health Authority recommendations (HAS) ( https://www.has-sante.fr/portail/jcms/c_272505/recommandations-par-consensus-formalize-rcf ).
Results
A condensed version of HD symptoms and recommendations is provided in the main text. A full version is available in Appendix 2. Publications justifying the grades of the recommendations are cited in the text. Recommendations provided without specific grading are underpinned by professional agreements.
Conclusion
The EHDN guidelines task force provides here scientific and consensual guidelines from experts from 15 European experts from the national and steering committees and 73 worldwide additional experts from 25 countries. Whereas, the literature extraction and scoring extent from 1965 to 2015, experts' input extended until October 2018.
Author Contributions
A-CB-L supervised the elaboration of the guidelines. OA, KY, CS-G, and RM selected the studies to be analyzed. A-CB-L, KY, CP, CS-G, and DR analyzed each study and assigned a level of scientific evidence. Members of the National Committees (A-CB-L, CV, KY, CP, CS-G, OA, DR, and DC) formulated initial recommendations for each HD symptom.
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank Delphine Delbos for her help in conducting the online questionnaires, Gaëlle Désaméricq and Alasdair Ross for their participation in data extraction, Jessica Koehli for her help in contacting HD experts.
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What is clonic sclerosis?
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Does alcohol affect brain development?
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What are the symptoms of HD?
HD symptoms include cognitive impairment, chorea and movement difficulties, and psychiatric challenges. This session will review the indications, benefits and side effects of medications which are commonly used to manage these symptoms.
Why are neuroleptics considered first choice?
In patients with significant psychiatric disturbances (severe depression, mania, anger outbursts or psychosis), neuroleptic drugs made be first-choice because they will treat both the psychiatric symptoms and reduce chorea.
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