Hospital Admissions of Huntington's Disease Patients in a Huntington's Disease Centre Between 2011 and 2016: A Retrospective Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Huntington's Disease (HD) is a relentlessly progressive genetic neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic motor, psychiatric, and behavioral abnormalities that inevitably results in severe disability and death. Many patients have multiple hospital admissions during the disease course, but there is limited information which problems lead to hospitalization.

Objectives

To assess acute reasons for hospital admissions, discharge routes, and clinical characteristics of HD patients in a retrospective analysis.

Methods

We reviewed all medical records of patients with an established diagnosis of Huntington's Disease and hospital admissions between 2011 and 2016 in our local hospital-based database.

Results

There were 135 hospital admissions in 53 HD pat

SUBMITTER: Peball M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274354 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature