Conversion to <scp>AbobotulinumtoxinA</scp> Increases Waning Time and Efficacy for Cervical Dystonia
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Abstract
Background: Symptom re-emergence before re-injection negatively impacts cervical dystonia (CD) patients receiving botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) therapy. Longer waning time is associated with abobotulinumtoxinA (abo-BoNT-A) as compared to onabotulinumtoxinA (ona-BoNT-A)/incobotulinumtoxinA (inco-BoNT-A) formulations. Objectives: To compare waning time and treatment outcomes when chronically injected CD patients experiencing early waning despite being optimized on BoNT-A (ona-BoNT-A/inco-BoNT-A) were converted to abo-BoNT-A. Methods: Thirty-three chronically injected CD participants with a waning time of ≤8 weeks were converted to abo-BoNT-A (1:2.5 dose ratio) for three injections every 12-weeks. The second and third injection patterns were kinematically optimized. Participants were converted back to their original BoNT-A for the fourth injection (1:2.5) using the same third abo-BoNT-A pattern. Participant-perceived waning times were collected post-injections. Clinical scales (Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS)) and kinematic measures were collected 12-weeks post-injection and at three peak effect time-points. Results: < 0.0001) and at peak effect following the third injection compared to original BoNT-A. Dysphagia and muscle weakness were reported and comparable to safety of original BoNT-A formulations. Conclusions: Optimized patients experiencing waning had significant improvement in the peak benefit as well as the duration of effect when converted to abo-BoNT-A. This effect was toxin dependent as reconversion to the original BoNT-A using the kinematically optimized pattern failed to produce an improvement in waning.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".