Dextromethorphan is Effective for Essential Blepharospasm

Management of Essential Blepharospasm

[Essential blepharospasm: literature review].

Essential blepharospasm is a focal distonia characterized by involuntary, spasmodic, bilateral contractions of eyelid protractors. This is a rare disease, which diagnosis is frequently late and symptoms may progress until functional blindness. In this article, we perform a review and describe the most important features of the disease, including historical aspects, epidemiology, etiology, clini...

Animal Models for Investigating Benign Essential Blepharospasm

The focal dystonia benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) affects as many as 40,000 individuals in the United States. This dystonia is characterized by trigeminal hyperexcitability, photophobia, and most disabling of the symptoms, involuntary spasms of lid closure that can produce functional blindness. Like many focal dystonias, BEB appears to develop from the interaction between a predisposing c...

Surgical management of essential blepharospasm.

We have reviewed the surgical management of essential blepharospasm over the last 15 years, comparing the results from facial nerve avulsion with those from orbicularis muscle stripping. After facial nerve avulsion 50% of patients remained free of troublesome spasm for 15 months after surgery, but only 25% remained so for more than two years. Following orbicularis oculi myectomy 50% of patients...

Patients with essential blepharospasm and glaucoma : case

Trabalho realizado na Clínica Oftalmológica do Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP São Paulo (SP) Brasil. 1 Pós-graduando do Departamento de Plástica Ocular do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo USP São Paulo (SP) Brasil. 2 Vitreous and Retina Clinical Fellow, University of California Irvine USA. 3 Chefe do Departamento de Glaucoma do Hospital das Clínicas da...