Status:
TERMINATED
Essential Tremor in Children and Adolescent
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital, Montpellier
Conditions:
Essential Tremor
Eligibility:
All Genders
3-18 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Essential tremor (TE) is the most common abnormal movement of the adult. His diagnosis is based on a bundle of clinical arguments (Movement Disorders Society, 1998). Well characterized in the adult, l...
Detailed Description
A multicenter, descriptive cross-sectional study will include children and adolescents whose diagnosis of TE has been retained by an abnormal movement specialist before the age of 18 years. Each chil...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Subject whose age is between 3 and 18 years
- Subject affiliated to a social security scheme
- Parents or subjects who have been informed of the course and consequences of the study by an investigator and who have signed the informed consent form for prospective inclusion or who have given their non-opposition for retrospective inclusion.
- Diagnosis of essential tremor established according to the diagnostic criteria of the Movement Disorders Society (1998), by a neuropediatrician or a neurologist, specialist in abnormal movements. The diagnosis is based on the presence of the following criteria: bilateral action tremor of the hands and forearms, absence of other neurological signs.
- Availability of an electromyogram for retrospective inclusions.
Exclusion
- Abnormal neurological examination outside tremor
- Family history or personal dysthyroidism
- Existence of a global psychomotor or motor developmental delay
- Taking medication that may induce tremor
- known poisoning by heavy metals, bismuth, mercury, methyl bromide
- Severe appearance of the tremor
- Tremor suggestive of a psychogenic origin
- Abnormal or non-existent brain MRI if family case
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 2 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
18 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03487705
Start Date
July 1 2018
End Date
July 2 2021
Last Update
November 18 2021
Active Locations (1)
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CHU Gui de Chauliac
Montpellier, France, 34295