Causes of Tardive Dyskinesia
Causes of Tardive Dyskinesia (Diseases Database):
The follow list shows some of the possible medical causes of Tardive Dyskinesia
that are listed by the Diseases Database:
Source: Diseases Database
Tardive Dyskinesia Causes: Book Excerpts
Medications or substances causing Tardive Dyskinesia:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Tardive Dyskinesia as a symptom.
This list is incomplete and various other drugs or substances
may cause your symptoms.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
- Neuroleptic drugs
- Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride
- Ormazine
- Chlorprothixine
- Taractan
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medications causing Tardive Dyskinesia
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As with all medical conditions,
there may be many causal factors.
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Causes of Tardive Dyskinesia: Online Medical Books
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Stomatitis and other oral infections:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Acute herpetic stomatitis results from the herpes simplex virus. It’s common in children ages 1 to 3. The cause of aphthous stomatitis is unknown, but predisposing factors include stress, fatigue, anxiety, febrile states, trauma, and solar overexposure. This type is common in girls and female adolescents.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Dystonia:
Medical causes
(Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
Alzheimer’s disease
Dystonia is a late sign of this disorder, which is marked by slowly progressive dementia. The patient typically displays decreased attention span, amnesia, agitation, an inability to carry out activities of daily living, dysarthria, and emotional lability.
Dystonia musculorum deformans
Prolonged, generalized dystonia is the hallmark of this disorder, which usually develops in childhood and worsens with age. Initially, it causes foot inversion, which is followed by growth retardation and scoliosis. Late signs include twisted, bizarre postures, limb contractures, and dysarthria.
Hallervorden-Spatz disease
This degenerative disease causes dystonic trunk movements accompanied by choreoathetosis, ataxia, myoclonus, and generalized rigidity. The patient also exhibits a progressive intellectual decline and dysarthria.
Huntington’s disease
Dystonic movements mark the preterminal stage of Huntington’s disease. Characterized by progressive intellectual decline, this disorder leads to dementia and emotional lability. The patient displays choreoathetosis accompanied by dysarthria, dysphagia, facial grimacing, and a wide-based, prancing gait.
Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
Ataxia, an early sign in this rare disorder, slowly progresses to dystonia. Other findings include dysarthria, action tremor, bradykinesia, and visual deterioration.
Parkinson’s disease
Dystonic spasms are common in this disease. Other classic features include uniform or jerky rigidity, pill-rolling tremor, bradykinesia, dysarthria, dysphagia, drooling, masklike facies, monotone voice, stooped posture, and a propulsive gait.
Pick’s disease
Dystonia appears as a late sign in this rare disorder, which resembles Alzheimer’s disease.
Supranuclear ophthalmoplegia
Also known as Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, this rare disorder affects mainly middle-aged people, causing intermittent dystonia with extreme neck flexion or extension. Other signs and symptoms include impaired extraocular movement, diminished voice volume, dysarthria, truncal rigidity, dementia, ataxia, masklike facies, and dysphagia.
Wilson’s disease
Progressive dystonia and chorea of the arms and legs mark this disorder. Other common signs and symptoms include hoarseness, bradykinesia, behavior changes, dysphagia, drooling, dysarthria, tremors, and Kayser-Fleischer rings (rusty-brown rings at the periphery of the cornea).
Other causes
Drugs
. Phenothiazines can cause dystonia. Aliphatics such as chlorpromazine cause it occasionally, and piperidines rarely cause it.
Haloperidol, loxapine, and other antipsychotics usually produce acute facial dystonia, as do risperidone, metyrosine, antiemetic doses of metoclopramide, and excessive doses of levodopa.
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Source: Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition), 2006
Orofacial dyskinesia:
Medical causes
(Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
Hemifacial spasm
This disorder is characterized by unilateral, intermittent spasms of muscles of the face, eye, and mouth. The patient may have some voluntary control over the spasms. Typically, the spasms are aggravated by emotional upset and disappear during sleep. Spasms may interfere with swallowing and speech.
Other causes
Metoclopramide and metyrosine
Rarely, these drugs cause orofacial dyskinesia.
Phenothiazines and other antipsychotic drugs
These drugs may cause orofacial dyskinesia and other extrapyramidal effects. Movements are sustained, involving the eyes, mouth, face, and neck; they occur with prolonged treatment, especially after it has been reduced. Lip retraction and dysphagia are common.
Among the phenothiazines, the piperazine derivatives (perphenazine, prochlorperazine, fluphenazine, and trifluoperazine) most commonly cause this sign. Aliphatic phenothiazines (chlorpromazine) occasionally cause it. Piperidine phenothiazines (thioridazine and thiethylperazine) rarely cause orofacial dyskinesia. Other antipsychotic drugs (haloperidol, thiothixene, and loxapine) commonly cause this sign.
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Source: Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition), 2006
Stomatitis and other oral infections:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Acute herpetic stomatitis results from herpes simplex virus. The cause of aphthous stomatitis is unclear.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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