...-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database (2011–2020) was queried using diagnosis/procedure codes for patients undergoing MVD procedures for trigeminal neuralgia ( n = 1,211), hemifacial spasm ( n = 236), or glossopharyngeal neuralgia ( n = 26). The relationship between...

...Jeong-A Lee; Doo-Sik Kong; Soo Jung Kim; Seunghoon Lee; Sang-Ku Park; Kwan Park Introduction: Patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) experience improvement in symptoms after microvascular decompression (MVD); however, patient satisfaction is sometimes low. This study aimed to analyze the relationship...

...José Luis Navarro-Olvera; Juan Camilo Covaleda-Rodriguez; Jose Armando Diaz-Martinez; Gustavo Aguado-Carrillo; José Damian Carrillo-Ruiz; Francisco Velasco-Campos Background: Hemifacial spasm is an involuntary condition that involves muscles innervated by the ipsilateral facial nerve...

...Jeong-A Lee; Kyung-Hee Kim; Kwan Park Background: The natural history without treatment of a large series of hemifacial spasm (HFS) patients has not been well-documented. Objective: The purpose of this study was to characterize the natural history and clinical outcome in patients with HFS. Methods...

... sponge. Methods: Among the 685 hemifacial spasm cases between 2010 and 2014, 31 were reoperated on within a week because of unsatisfactory outcome, which was focused on in this study. Intraoperative findings regarding Teflon inserts of these repeat MVDs were reviewed. Results: Among the 38 without...

...Hee Jin Kim; Young Seok Park; Ju Seok Ryu; Ryoong Huh; Inbo Han; Dong Ah Shin; Tae Gon Kim; Kyung Gi Cho; Sang-Sup Chung Background: Delayed facial palsy (DFP) after microvascular decompression (MVD) in patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) is not uncommon, but the cause remains unknown. Objectives...

...Jeong A Lee; Kwang Wook Jo; Doo-Sik Kong; Kwan Park Background: To date, no consensus has been reached regarding validated and practical tools to quantify the severity of hemifacial spasm (HFS) before and after surgery. Objective: The aim of this study has been to establish objective parameters...

...Dibyendu K. Ray; Diaa Bahgat; Shirley McCartney; Kim J. Burchiel Background: Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a movement disorder characterized by intermittent, involuntary clonic or tonic-clonic contractions of muscles innervated by the ipsilateral facial nerve. Recent studies have documented change...

...Bradley C. Lega; Richard L. Harper; Mark D. Dannenbaum; Daniel Yoshor Late recurrences after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm or trigeminal neuralgia are rare. We present an atypical case of recurrence one and a half years after successful microvascular decompression for hemifacial...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hemifacial spasm Intracranial neurovascular decompression Proc. 8th Meeting World Soc. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Part II,Zurich 1981 Appl. Neurophysiol. 45: 291-294...

...Sang Sup Chung; Jong Hee Chang; Jae Young Choi; Jin Woo Chang; Young Gou Park We analyzed the records of 1,169 patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) who underwent microvascular decompression (MVD) and were followed up for more than 6 months from January 1987. The mean follow-up duration was 23.8...

...J.C. Acevedo; M. Sindou; C. Fischer; C. Vial The authors report the results of a series of 75 patients operated on for hemifacial spasm by the same surgeon between October 1981 and January 1997. Microsurgical vascular decompression was performed through a retromastoid approach in contralateral...