Challenging Aspects of Botulinum Toxin Therapy
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Bacterial Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (19 October 2021) | Viewed by 492
Special Issue Editors
Interests: botulinum toxin therapy; pathogenesis of sensorimotor integration disorders; heavy metal intoxication
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Interests: multiple sclerosis; neuromyelitis spectrum disorders; optical coherence tomography; visual evoked potentials; botulinum neurotoxin therapy; general neurology
2. Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3. Department of Regional Health Research and Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
4. Department of Neurology, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark
Interests: multiple sclerosis; clinical neurology; movement disorders; demyelinating diseases; neuroimmunology; neuro-ophthalmology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This issue is aimed at describing the history of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) therapy and the development of the broad spectrum of neurological and non-neurological indications. It also deals with the continuous purification attempts to improve biological function and to reduce immunoresistance. It emphasizes that BoNT-therapy is highly effective, but is not a causal therapy. For a good outcome tissue, muscle and dose selection have to be optimized and different guidance techniques should be used. Knowledge of the course of disease before and after BoNT-therapy is important. This underlines the relevance of documentation of injection sites, dose per site and the use of clinical scores for carefully monitoring BoNT-therapy carefully and the assessment of patients´ experience of improvement of quality of life. The side effects of BoNT-therapy are mild and sometimes overestimated. Development of an immunoresistance can be a limiting factor of BoNT-therapy. Different clinical and laboratory tests have been developed for the early detection of a partial secondary treatment failure. Possible strategies how to proceed when a secondary treatment failure has become clinically manifest should also be included into this issue.
This issue would cover the mentioned above aspects in general with focus on following points:
- Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) therapy in clinical neurology
- Gathering real world evidence for neurological BoNT therapy
- Established and emerging indications
- Personal experience with tips and tricks in neurological BoNT therapy
- Issues related to BoNT/A therapy and neutralizing antibodies
- Laboratory and clinical tests for detecting antibody formation
- Special cases in Botulinum Toxin Therapy (case reports and literature reviews) (cases without BoNT indication approval – therapy resistant cases – unusual cases -…)
- BoNT therapy challenges in the time of Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown
Prof. Dr. Harald Hefter
Prof. Dr. Philipp Albrecht
Dr. Sara Samadzadeh
Dr. John-Ih Lee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT)
- botulinum neurotoxin type A(BoNT/A)
- neutralizing antibodies
- immunoresistance
- primary and secondary treatment failure
- antigenicity
- complex protein-free BoNT/A
- complex protein containing BoNT/A
- therapy switching
