Catalog

Dopa-responsive dystonia

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Link to WHO Definition

Dopa-responsive dystonia – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1534901505

Dopa-responsive dystonia is a dystonic disorder that typically presents in childhood with walking problems due to dystonia of the lower limbs and worsening of the dystonia towards the evening. It may also present with a ''cerebral-palsy'' like picture with onset in infancy, or more rarely as a focal dystonia with onset typically in adulthood or even as parkinsonism in adulthood. The dystonia classically responds to L Dopa.