| Literature DB >> 16401453 |
Heakyung Kim1, Yung Lee, Daniel Weiner, Robin Kaye, Anne Marie Cahill, Marc Yudkoff.
Abstract
We describe 2 children with severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (CP) who have significant drooling and frequent aspiration pneumonia. They underwent simultaneous botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injections to salivary glands for drooling and prevention of aspiration pneumonia along with single-event multilevel chemoneurolysis (SEMLC) with BTX-A and 5% phenol for severe diffuse spasticity. There was significant improvement in drooling, frequency of aspiration pneumonia, and spasticity without adverse effect. BTX-A injections into the salivary glands, in addition to SEMLC, for these 2 children with medically complicated severe spastic quadriplegic CP, were safe and highly successful procedures, which improved their health-related quality of life.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16401453 DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.08.112
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Phys Med Rehabil ISSN: 0003-9993 Impact factor: 3.966