Brazilian consensus on guidelines for diagnosis and treatment for restless legs syndrome

Alan Christmann Fröhlich; Alan Luiz Eckeli; Andrea Bacelar; Dalva Poyares; Daniela Vianna Pachito; Fernando Gustavo Stelzer; Fernando Morgadinho Santos Coelho; Geraldo Nunes Vieira Rizzo; Gilmar Fernandes do Prado; Heidi Haueisen Sander; Leonardo Ierardi Goulart; Ligia Mendonça Lucchesi; Lívia Leite Góes Gitai; Lucila Bizari Fernandes do Prado; Luiz Ataíde-Junior; Marcio Luciano de Souza Bezerra; Maria Cecília Lopes; Marine Meliksetyan Trentin; Raimundo Nonato Delgado Rodrigues; Rosa Hasan; Rosana S Cardoso Alves; Suzana Veiga Schönwald; Walter André dos Santos Moraes

doi:10.1590/0004-282X20140239

Brazilian consensus on guidelines for diagnosis and treatment for restless legs syndrome

Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2015 Mar;73(3):260-80. doi: 10.1590/0004-282X20140239.

Authors

Alan Christmann Fröhlich¹, Alan Luiz Eckeli², Andrea Bacelar³, Dalva Poyares⁴, Daniela Vianna Pachito⁵, Fernando Gustavo Stelzer⁶, Fernando Morgadinho Santos Coelho⁷, Geraldo Nunes Vieira Rizzo⁶, Gilmar Fernandes do Prado⁷, Heidi Haueisen Sander², Leonardo Ierardi Goulart⁸, Ligia Mendonça Lucchesi⁴, Lívia Leite Góes Gitai⁹, Lucila Bizari Fernandes do Prado⁷, Luiz Ataíde-Junior¹⁰, Marcio Luciano de Souza Bezerra¹¹, Maria Cecília Lopes¹², Marine Meliksetyan Trentin¹³, Raimundo Nonato Delgado Rodrigues¹⁴, Rosa Hasan, Rosana S Cardoso Alves, Suzana Veiga Schönwald, Walter André dos Santos Moraes

Affiliations

¹ Serviço de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia, Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil.
² Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil.
³ Clínica Carlos Bacelar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
⁴ Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁵ ProSSono - Centro de Medicina do Sono, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.
⁶ Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
⁷ Departamento de Neurologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁸ Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁹ Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
¹⁰ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
¹¹ Clínica Rio-Sono, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
¹² Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
¹³ Hospital São Lucas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
¹⁴ Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.

PMID: 25807136
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X20140239

Abstract

The Consensus on restless legs syndrome is an effort of neurologists from several Brazilian states, which tirelessly reviewed the literature of recent years in search of evidence, both in regard to diagnosis and treatment, according to the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Review

MeSH terms

Brazil
Calcium Channel Blockers / therapeutic use
Consensus
Diagnosis, Differential
Dopamine Agonists / therapeutic use
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Restless Legs Syndrome / complications
Restless Legs Syndrome / diagnosis*
Restless Legs Syndrome / physiopathology
Restless Legs Syndrome / therapy*

Substances

Calcium Channel Blockers
Dopamine Agonists