ALLMedicine™ Facial Paralysis Center

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Practice Essentials The most common tumors of the peripheral nerves are neuromas, which are defined as a growths or swellings on nerves. Neuromas may arise extrinsically or intrinsically. Primary intrinsic nerve cell tumors include schwannomas, wh...

Nov 28th, 2021 - Synkinesis refers to abnormal involuntary facial movements that accompany volitional facial movements. Despite a 55% incidence of synkinesis reported in patients with enduring facial paralysis, there is still a lack of complete understanding of th...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Peripheral facial paralysis (PFP) is a consequence of the peripheral neuronal lesion of the facial nerve. It can be either primary (Bell palsy) or secondary. The incidence of PFP is 11.5 to 40.2 per 100,000 people a year. Nearly 70% of patients wi...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Non-iatrogenic traumatic facial paralysis is most common in intratemporal facial nerve injury caused by temporal bone fracture, followed by intraparotid facial nerve branch injury. Facial paralysis caused by injury to the extratemporal trunk of th...

Nov 11th, 2021 - Overview Dynamic and static reconstruction procedures are employed for facial reanimation in patients suffering from facial nerve paralysis. [1] However, dynamic strategies tend to be more successful and fruitful and should be offered to each pati...

Oct 8th, 2021 - Facial nerve paralysis is a devastating event that in up to 30% of cases may result in chronic weakness and/or the disfiguring condition of synkinesis, a long-lasting muscle discoordination of facial movement caused by aberrant facial nerve regene...

Sep 10th, 2021 - The study will involve two groups: Group 1: Patients with a continuous unilateral facial paralysis that underwent an operation for facial reanimation will be enrolled at least one year after the operation according to review of medical records of ...

Jun 22nd, 2021 - This, prospective, observational study has two goals which are to determine outcomes of (1) facial impairment and disfigurement, and (2) self-perceptions of facial appearance and well-being in patients who undergo facial reanimation surgery to add...

May 14th, 2021 - The facial palsy concerns between 15 and 40 people per 100000 inhabitants. They are of various etiologies such as infectious, tumoral, traumatic or idiopathic. It has variable severities with sometimes heavy functional repercussions and different ...

May 10th, 2021 - Stroke is a leading cause of disability. Most stroke survivors are discharged home after hospitalization and receive care from informal caregivers (e.g., unpaid spouses) who are often unprepared for the role. Stroke survivorship is an exemplar of ...

Aug 18th, 2021 - (Reuters) - The risk of Bell's Palsy, a type of facial paralysis, is higher after Sinovac Biotech Ltd's COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac, but should not be a deterrent to vaccination, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases jour...

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Despite recent reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) after the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, independent experts who advise the Centers for Dise...

Jun 24th, 2021 - People with COVID-19 were more likely to develop Bell's palsy (peripheral facial nerve palsy) than people who were vaccinated against the virus, an analysis of medical records showed. Matching COVID-19 patients with vaccinated individuals showed t...

Jun 11th, 2021 - Neurologic adverse effect (AEs) associated with CAR T-cell therapies like ciltacabtagene autoleucel (Cilta-cel or JNJ-68284528) can be managed without long-term lasting effects, as long as they are caught and treated promptly in patients with rela...

Feb 5th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Two COVID vaccines have already been approved for use in the United States and two more could be approved within the next few months. Here's what ...