oculogyric crisis

Oculogyric crisis and opisthotonus are also very common.

Neuroleptic drugs often cause dystonia, including oculogyric crisis.

The shouting can be accompanied by other symptoms, such as oculogyric crises or other involuntary movements.

Oculogyric crisis (OGC) is the name of a dystonic reaction to certain drugs or medical conditions.

Tardive and chronically recurrent oculogyric crises.

Aripiprazole-induced oculogyric crisis (acute dystonia).

In the case of Oculogyric crisis, diphenhydramine may be administered with excellent results with symptoms subsiding in a matter of minutes.

Tourette syndrome patients treated with AMPT developed akinesia, akathisia, and oculogyric crisis.

In 2012, the FDA added cetirizine in Drugs to Watch List for oculogyric crisis.

In 1961, Wohlfart et al. reported a case of klazomania accompanied by oculogyric crises, another symptom of postencephalitic Parkinsonian syndrome.

It reduces the frequency and duration of oculogyric crises as well as of dyskinetic movements and spastic contractions.

Patients may also experience abnormal eye movements ("oculogyric crises"), parkinsonism, upper body weakness, muscular pains, tremors, neck rigidity, and behavioral changes including psychosis.

Opisthotonus is also described as a potential CNS symptom of heat stroke along with bizarre behavior, hallucinations, decerebrate rigidity, oculogyric crisis and cerebellar dysfunction.

Infrequent ADRs include hypertension, hypotension, hyperprolactinaemia leading to galactorrhea, constipation, depression, headache, and extrapyramidal effects such as oculogyric crisis.

This pandemic also gave rise to observations of other tics that came to be associated with encephalitis lethargica such as complex vocalizations of blocking, echolalia, palilalia, and oculogyric crises.

Patients who have been diagnosed with SR deficiency and have undergone this treatment have shown improvements with most motor impairments including oculogyric crises, dystonia, balance, and coordination.

Drugs that can trigger an oculogyric crisis include neuroleptics (such as olanzapine), carbamazepine, cetirizine, chloroquine, cisplatin, diazoxide, levodopa, lithium, metoclopramide, domperidone, nifedipine, pemoline, phencyclidine ("PCP"), reserpine.

Oculogyric crises: abnormal rotation of the eyes The oculogyric crises usually occur in the later half of the day and during these episodes patients undergo extreme agitation and irritability along with uncontrolled head and neck movements.

Variability in occurrence and severity of other symptoms of the condition, such as hypotonia, ataxia, tremors, spasticity, bulbar involvement, oculogyric crises, and cognitive impairment, is comparable with autosomal dominant GTPCH and tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency, which are both classified as forms of DOPA-responsive dystonia.