Differences in improvement between patients with idiopathic versus neurovascular hemifacial spasm after botulinum toxin treatment
| Autor: | Esra Okuyucu, Özlem Coşkun, Leyla Cavdar, Levent Ertuğrul İnan, Tuğba Tunç, Yeşim Sücüllü Karadağ |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Botulinum Toxins medicine.medical_treatment Microvascular decompression Severity of Illness Index Magnetic resonance angiography Double-Blind Method Physiology (medical) Severity of illness medicine Humans Hemifacial Spasm cardiovascular diseases Prospective Studies Aged Retrospective Studies Neurologic Examination medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Anti-Dyskinesia Agents Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Neurovascular bundle Botulinum toxin Facial nerve Magnetic Resonance Imaging nervous system diseases Surgery body regions stomatognathic diseases nervous system Neurology Anesthesia Female Neurology (clinical) business Magnetic Resonance Angiography Hemifacial spasm medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 15(3) |
| ISSN: | 0967-5868 |
| Popis: | This study was performed to investigate the differences in response to botulinum toxin treatment between patients with idiopathic versus neurovascular hemifacial spasm. A total of 69 patients with hemifacial spasm were investigated prospectively with cranial magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance angiography. Neurovascular contact was found in 23 patients. All patients were assessed with a severity scale and a disease awareness scale. After treatment, the patients with idiopathic hemifacial spasm improved significantly in terms of both severity and awareness scores, but the patients with neurovascular hemifacial spasm improved only in the awareness scores. In conclusion, patients with idiopathic hemifacial spasm experienced a greater improvement after treatment with botulinum toxin than did patients with neurovascular hemifacial spasm. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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