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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution (0.1%) is a medication used to treat blepharoptosis. Patients who suffer from blepharoptosis have low-lying eyelids that can hinder their vision.
Jonathan Sung +3 more
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Depression in blepharospasm: a question of facial feedback? [PDF]
, 2017 Janis Rebecca Bedarf,1 Sied Kebir,1,2 Joan Philipp Michelis,1,3 Bettina Wabbels,4 Sebastian Paus1 1Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Bonn, 2Department of Neurology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany; 3Movement Disorders Center, Department ...
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Clinical features and treatment with botulinum toxin in blepharospasm: a 17-year experience
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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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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Smell and taste in idiopathic blepharospasm
, 2021 The pathophysiology of blepharospasm is incompletely understood. Current concepts suggest that blepharospasm is a network disorder, involving basal ganglia, thalamus, cortex, and, possibly, the cerebellum.
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