Olfaction and essential tremor

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Lucas Barasnevicius Quagliato²  Maura Aparecida Viana²  Elizabeth Maria Aparecida Barasnevicius Quagliato²  Samuel Simis¹ 

[1] ,Pontifíce Catholic University of São Paulo Faculty of Medical Sciences Sorocaba SP ,Brazil

关键词: essential tremor;    olfaction;    UPSIT;    tremor essencial;    olfato;    TICUP;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2009000100006

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the olfactory identification in 40 essential tremor (ET) patients, with the University of Pennsylvania 12 Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), to correlate UPSIT scores to clinical and epidemiological data and to compare it to 89 aged matched controls. METHOD: Patients were assessed using ET Clinical Scale of Evaluation and UPSIT. RESULTS: In patients with ET, the UPSIT medium score was 9.10, similar to the control group (9.11), which was also observed in all age groups. ET severity did not correlate to UPSIT scores. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated normality of olfactory identification on ET, qualifying UPSIT to be an important tool on tremor differential diagnosis of undetermined origin.

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