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Nonmotor symptoms and sleep disturbances in patients with blepharospasm
Annals of Movement Disorders, 2020 Blepharospasm is a disabling focal dystonia, which is characterized by involuntary bilateral synchronous, excessive blinking and closure of the eyes.
Somdattaa Ray, Pramod K Pal, Ravi Yadav
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Protective Effect of Blepharospasm on the Anterior Segment of the Eye
Acta Clinica Croatica, 2018 The aim of the study was to determine the role of blepharospasm as a protective factor for the anterior segment of the eye by comparing the degree of blepharospasm and changes of the anterior segment structures.
Dubravka Biuk +5 more
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Sex related differences in nonmotor symptoms of patients with idiopathic blepharospasm
Scientific Reports, 2021 Idiopathic blepharospasm shows a female predominance in prevalence, whether there are sex-related differences in distributions of nonmotor symptoms (NMSs) and predictors of quality of life are unknown.
Jing Yang +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 We evaluated whether the pupillary light reflex is altered in benign essential blepharospasm patients. Twenty-three patients with benign essential blepharospasm, 47 with reflex blepharospasm, and 29 dry eye disease controls were included. Pupillary light
Yong-Soo Byun +3 more
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Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2014 Background: Blepharospasm is a focal cranial dystonia, which could be idiopathic in origin or secondary to an underlying disorder that commonly impairs quality of life.
Daniel Martinez-Ramirez +6 more
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Blepharospasm as a tardive manifestation of COVID-19 disease: A case report
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 We report three cases of blepharospasms developed after a symptomatic COVID-19 infection, in order to describe a possible association between COVID-19 infection and essential blepharospasm. Blepharospasm could represent a late sign of COVID-19 infection (
Roberta Farci +2 more
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Psychogenic blepharospasm associated with Meige’s syndrome: a case report
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2018 Here we report a patient who presented a co-occurrence of Meige’s syndrome and psychogenic blepharospasm. At the first assessments, neurologists excluded conversion disorder because of the presence of a conflict and stress, absence of any markers for ...
Cagdas Oyku Memis +5 more
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Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2015 Background: The aim was to elucidate clinical trial efficacy, safety, and dosing practices of abobotulinumtoxinA (ABO) treatment in adult patients with blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm.
Khashayar Dashtipour +4 more
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Screening for Cognitive Impairments in Primary Blepharospasm. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Studies have reported that non-motor symptoms are an important component of primary dystonia. However, evidence supporting cognitive impairment in primary dystonia is limited and contradictory.We applied the Chinese version of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive
Jing Yang +7 more
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Botulinum toxin in the management of blepharospasm: current evidence and recent developments
Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders, 2015 Blepharospasm is a focal (although usually bilateral) dystonia of the orbicularis oculi muscles, producing excessive eye closure. This produces significant disability through functional blindness. Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) have become the treatment of
Amy Hellman, Diego Torres-Russotto
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