Journal
JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION
Volume 128, Issue 3, Pages 321-335Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-021-02312-4
Keywords
Botulinum toxin; Therapy; Consensus guidelines; Dystonia; Spasticity; Treatment algorithms; Dosing tables; Target muscles; Total dose; Typical dose; Dose limits; Dose variability
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Funding
- Allergan
- Merz Pharmaceuticals
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC1314700]
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Botulinum toxin (BT) therapy is a highly individualized and complex treatment that requires treatment algorithms and injection schemes to be tailored to each patient. Consensus guidelines have been updated and improved by acknowledging recent advances in treatment algorithms and providing more detailed dosing data. Collaborating with an international panel of experts has further enhanced the guidelines for BT therapy.
Botulinum toxin (BT) therapy is a complex and highly individualised therapy defined by treatment algorithms and injection schemes describing its target muscles and their dosing. Various consensus guidelines have tried to standardise and to improve BT therapy. We wanted to update and improve consensus guidelines by: (1) Acknowledging recent advances of treatment algorithms. (2) Basing dosing tables on statistical analyses of real-life treatment data of 1831 BT injections in 36 different target muscles in 420 dystonia patients and 1593 BT injections in 31 different target muscles in 240 spasticity patients. (3) Providing more detailed dosing data including typical doses, dose variabilities, and dosing limits. (4) Including total doses and target muscle selections for typical clinical entities thus adapting dosing to different aetiologies and pathophysiologies. (5) In addition, providing a brief and concise review of the clinical entity treated together with general principles of its BT therapy. For this, we collaborated with IAB-Interdisciplinary Working Group for Movement Disorders which invited an international panel of experts for the support.
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