OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between prognosis of 2 different facial palsies and pretreatment hematologic laboratory values. STUDY DESIGN Multicenter case series with chart review. SETTING Three tertiary care hospitals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We examined the clinical records of 468 facial palsy patients who were treated with an antiviral drug in combination with either oral or intr...

In the modern medical era, facial paralysis is linked with the name of Charles Bell. This disease, which is usually unilateral and is a peripheral facial palsy, causes facial muscle weakness in the affected side. Bell gave a complete description of the disease; but historically other physicians had described it several hundred years prior although it had been ignored for different reasons, such...

To analyze the value of facial nerve antidromic evoked potentials (FNAEPs) in predicting recovery from Bell palsy. Study Design. Retrospective study using electrodiagnostic data and medical chart review. Methods. A series of 46 patients with unilateral Bell palsy treated were included. According to taste test, 26 cases were associated with taste disorder (Group 1) and 20 cases were not (Group 2...

We present a case of peripheral facial palsy developing after the first dose AZD1222, Astra Zeneca`s COVID-19 vaccine. A 31- year-old female received her AZD1222 vaccine against COVID-19. Later same day, she developed swelling around neck and head. The next woke up with hanging eyelid, mouth loss sensibility on left side face- indications paralysis. She later hyperesthesia upper extremities. Be...

The authors present a case of bilateral facial palsy in a 52-year-old man. The patient presented to an emergency department in Pennsylvania, describing left-sided neck pain and headache from "sleeping wrong," symptoms which eventually progressed to facial diplegia by his fourth visit in 2 weeks. His admitting diagnosis was Bell palsy; he was ultimately tested for and found to have Lyme disease....