Velopharyngeal Dystonia: An Unusual Focal Task-specific Dystonia? Cover

Velopharyngeal Dystonia: An Unusual Focal Task-specific Dystonia?

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements

Volume 7 (2017): Issue 0

By: Amar S. Patel, Lucian Sulica and Steven J. Frucht

Open Access

|Jul 2017

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Case 1 Initial Evaluation. The patient has a thick, hypernasal voice. Hard consonant sounds are particularly difficult and connected speech is preferentially affected. Sustained vowel phonation is unaffected.

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Case 1 Post-treatment Follow-up. Three months after treatment with trihexyphenidyl 4 mg three times a day, the patient displayed reduced hypernasality and consonant-specific guttural dysarthria.

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Case 2 Initial Evaluation. The patient has a simultaneously breathy and hypernasal quality to speech. Changing voice pitch or utilizing a sensory trick improves speech quality transiently.

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Case 2 Post-treatment Follow-up. Two months after treatment with trihexyphenidyl 2 mg three times a day, the patient had improved tone production, though the hypernasal quality of speech remained.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.353 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288

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Language: English

Submitted on: Jan 4, 2016

Accepted on: Jun 28, 2017

Published on: Jul 11, 2017

Published by: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Velopharyngeal dystonia,

functional voice disorder,

spasmodic dysphonia

© 2017 Amar S. Patel, Lucian Sulica, Steven J. Frucht, published by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
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