Hereditary essential tremor and restless legs syndrome.
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Hereditary essential tremor and restless legs syndrome.
Sir Essential tremor is usually considered to be a monosymptomatic disorder with variable clinical expression, about half of all cases demonstrating an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance.' Possible associations with other movement disorders have been described, including Parkinson's disease.2 We report a patient with hereditary essential tremor and the restless legs syndrome. A 71-year-o...
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After observing that several families with essential tremor (ET) clinically cosegregated with restless legs syndrome (RLS), we prospectively evaluated for the presence of RLS in 100 patients presenting to the Baylor College of Medicine with ET and prospectively examined all patients presenting with RLS for the presence of tremor during the same time frame. Of 100 consecutive ET patients (60 wom...
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The first description of the restless legs syndrome (RLS) is attributed to Thomas Willis in the 'London Practice of Physick' of 1685 (Ekbom, 1960). Here he wrote 'wherefore to some, when being a bed they betake themselves to sleep, presently in the arms and leggs, leapings and contractions of their tendons, and so great a restlessness and tossings of their members ensue, that the diseased are n...
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Restless legs syndrome is common; it is characterised by an urge to move and usually, but not exclusively, affects the legs. This urge to move is typically accompanied by abnormal sensations, variably described as burning, tingling, aching, or “insects crawling under the skin.” These sensations are transiently or partially relieved by movement, and there is a strong circadian influence—symptoms...
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The restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological disorder to take possession of increasing attention. RLS is characterized by an urge to move the legs, usually accompanied by uncomfortable or unpleasant sensations, that occurs or worsen at rest and is relieved by activity. The symptoms of RLS have a major impact on nocturnal sleep and daytime functions. The clinical diagnostic criteria...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.858.254