Pathogenesis of cranial neuropathies in Moebius syndrome: Electrodiagnostic orofacial studies
Autor: | Marie-Paule Vazquez, Bernard Sergent, Jean Jacques Baudon, Roberto Flores-Guevara, Francis Renault, Cyril Gitiaux, Jessie Aouizerate |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
medicine.diagnostic_test
Physiology business.industry Cranial nerves Electromyography Anatomy Facial nerve Nerve conduction velocity Pathogenesis 03 medical and health sciences Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Facial muscles 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure 030225 pediatrics Physiology (medical) Medicine Neurology (clinical) Brainstem Latency (engineering) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Muscle & Nerve. 58:79-83 |
ISSN: | 0148-639X |
DOI: | 10.1002/mus.26095 |
Popis: | Introduction We designed a retrospective study of 59 patients with congenital sporadic nonprogressive bilateral facial and abducens palsies. Methods Examinations included needle electromyography (EMG) of facial and oral muscles, facial nerve motor latency and conduction velocity (FNCV), and blink responses (BR). Results Neurogenic EMG changes were found in 1 or more muscles in 55 of 59 patients, with no abnormal spontaneous activity. EMG changes were homogeneously neurogenic in 17 patients, homogeneously myopathic in 1 patient, and heterogeneous in 41 of 59 patients. Motor latency was increased according to recordings from 52 of 137 facial muscles. An increase of motor latency was not associated with neurogenic EMG (Fischer's test: right, P = 1; left, P = 0.76). FNCV was slowed in 19 of 36 patients. BR was absent bilaterally in 35 of 58 patients; when present, R1 and R2 latencies were normal. Discussion Our results support the hypothesis of an early developmental defect localized in motor cranial nerves with spared V-VII internuclear pathways. Muscle Nerve, 2018. |
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