The differentiated treatment of dystonia musculorum deformans in children
Thirty-eight children with deforming muscular dystonia were treated. Eighteen of them suffered from rigid, seven from hyperkinetic, and 13 from, mixed forms of the disease. To patients with rigid condition DOPA-containing drugs (nakom) were administered in combination with cholinolytics, diphenin, midocalm. If the condition proved resistant to therapy, parlodel, remantadin, antidepressants were added. To patients with hyperkinetic forms haloperidol, clonazepam, dephenin, finlepsin were administered. In mixed forms combinations of nakom with haloperidol and clonazepam were prescribed. The best results were attained in therapy of rigid forms (77% of all rigid forms), particularly of DOPA-dependent forms and those with local involvement.