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Intractable Blepharospasm Treated with Bilateral Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation [PDF]
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2017 Background: Blepharospasm can be present as an isolated dystonia or in conjunction with other forms of cranial dystonia, causing significant disability.Case Report: We report a case of a 69-year-old male with craniocervical dystonia, manifesting ...
Nijee S. Luthra +5 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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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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Clinical features and treatment with botulinum toxin in blepharospasm: a 17-year experience [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2012 OBJECTIVE: It was to analyze clinical aspects of patients with blepharospasm, including outcomes of botulinum toxin treatment. Additionally, clinical characteristics of isolated blepharospasm were compared to those of blepharospasm plus other movement ...
Camila Catherine Aquino +6 more
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Blepharospasm with Anterocollis: A Distinctive Subphenotype of Segmental Craniocervical Dystonia
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2011 Background: Dystonia of the eyelids often spreads to affect other muscles in the craniocervical region. Certain blepharospasm-plus subphenotypes may be clinically unique.Methods: Seven subjects with the subphenotype of late-onset ...
Olga Waln, Mark S. LeDoux
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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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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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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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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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