Differentiation of Parkinson's disease tremor and essential tremor based on a novel hand posture.

Accelerometry Essential tremor Hand postures Parkinson's disease Tremor

Journal

Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders
ISSN: 2590-1125
Titre abrégé: Clin Park Relat Disord
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101761473

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 21 02 2022
revised: 04 05 2022
accepted: 14 05 2022
entrez: 1 6 2022
pubmed: 2 6 2022
medline: 2 6 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Tremor is one of the most common movement disorders but the correct diagnosis of tremor disorders, especially the differentiation between Parkinson's disease tremor (PT) and essential tremor (ET) remains a challenge for clinicians. We examined a novel hand position to distinguish PT from ET. We prospectively collected accelerometric tremor data in 14 ET patients and 14 PT patients with arms and hands fully stretched against arms stretched and hands relaxed, i. e. hanging down. The total acceleration from the three pairwise-perpendicular accelerometric axes during the 1-minute blocks of the two hand positions were computed and high-passed filtered at 2 Hz. The power spectral density during each hand position was calculated and summed up over the frequency domain. Our results showed a significantly higher occurrence of tremor in the hands hanging down position in PT patients compared to ET patients ( In conclusion, the new hand posture can differentiate between PT and ET with high accuracy (sensitivity 83 %, specificity 75 % for PT) and may be a helpful tool in the clinical assessment of tremor.

Sections du résumé

Background UNASSIGNED
Tremor is one of the most common movement disorders but the correct diagnosis of tremor disorders, especially the differentiation between Parkinson's disease tremor (PT) and essential tremor (ET) remains a challenge for clinicians.
Method UNASSIGNED
We examined a novel hand position to distinguish PT from ET. We prospectively collected accelerometric tremor data in 14 ET patients and 14 PT patients with arms and hands fully stretched against arms stretched and hands relaxed, i. e. hanging down. The total acceleration from the three pairwise-perpendicular accelerometric axes during the 1-minute blocks of the two hand positions were computed and high-passed filtered at 2 Hz. The power spectral density during each hand position was calculated and summed up over the frequency domain.
Results UNASSIGNED
Our results showed a significantly higher occurrence of tremor in the hands hanging down position in PT patients compared to ET patients (
Conclusion UNASSIGNED
In conclusion, the new hand posture can differentiate between PT and ET with high accuracy (sensitivity 83 %, specificity 75 % for PT) and may be a helpful tool in the clinical assessment of tremor.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35647517
doi: 10.1016/j.prdoa.2022.100146
pii: S2590-1125(22)00017-2
pmc: PMC9136132
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

100146

Informations de copyright

© 2022 The Author(s).

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Auteurs

Sujitha Mahendran (S)

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland.
Clinical Neuroscience Centre, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Oliver Bichsel (O)

Clinical Neuroscience Centre, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Roger Gassert (R)

Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Christian R Baumann (CR)

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland.
Clinical Neuroscience Centre, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Lukas L Imbach (LL)

Swiss Epilepsy Center, Klinik Lengg, Zurich, Switzerland.

Daniel Waldvogel (D)

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland.
Clinical Neuroscience Centre, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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