Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Condition to Be Better Understood

trigeminal neuralgia: a condition to be better understood

Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Condition to Be Better Understood

I read the paper entitled “Trigeminal Neuralgia: Frequency of Occurrence in Different Nerve Branches”, published in your journal (1). The data presented confirms the findings of previous papers (2-4), as was also mentioned by the author. Such findings help the clinicians to diagnose the disease. However, some other points need to be mentioned; even though this study reports no case of bilateral...

Trigeminal Neuralgia - A review

Trigeminal neuralgia is a very peculiar disease. The pain of trigeminal neuralgia, also known as “tic douloureux”, is characterized by episodic, paroxysmal, triggered pain in a distribution of 1 or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve. TN pain attacks may result from physiologic changes induced by a chronic partial injury to the brainstem trigeminal nerve root from a variety of causes. An ear...

Postherpetic Neuralgia and Trigeminal Neuralgia

Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is an unpredictable complication of varicella zoster virus- (VZV-) induced herpes zoster (HZ) which often occurs in elderly and immunocompromised persons and which can induce psychosocial dysfunction and can negatively impact on quality of life. Preventive options for PHN include vaccination of high-risk persons against HZ, early use of antiviral agents, and robust ...

Trigeminal neuralgia: the diagnosis and management of this excruciating and poorly understood facial pain.

Trigeminal neuralgia is defined as sudden, usually unilateral, severe, brief, stabbing recurrent episodes of pain within the distribution of one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve, which has a profound effect on quality of life. The diagnosis is made on history alone, and time needs to be taken to elicit the key features and differentiate from toothache or one of the trigeminal autonomic ...