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...

a ) Primary hemifacial spasm, by some authors termed "cryptogenic", "idiopathic" or "autonomous". In reviewing 106 cases Ehni and Woltm a n 5 gave the fo l lowing characteristics of this group: (1) the spasms are of an intermittent, twitching nature, ( 2 ) the eyel ids on the ipsilateral side are almost always involved, ( 3 ) the spasms are usually unilateral and when bilateral they are not syn...

objective: infantile spasms (is) is an age specific epileptic syndrome. due to poor response of is to conventional antiepileptic drugs, scientists are always on the lookout for newer, more effective drugs to treat the condition. materials & methods: in this study, 50 infants with is symptoms, aged between 2-24 months, were randomly divided into two equal groups, each treated either with vigabat...

PURPOSE To assess the feasibility of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy for patients with Cushing's syndrome caused by tumors secreting ectopic corticotropin or corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH). PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten patients with Cushing's syndrome, nine with ectopic corticotropin-secreting tumors and one with a CRH-secreting tumor, were consecutively studied. For comparison purposes...

Background and objectives: Trigger points and muscle spasms are painful symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome. They result in difficulties for performing Activities of Daily Living (ADL). An effective treatment of trigger points and muscle spasms decreases the pain and further results into mobility restoration. The aim of this controlled study was to evaluate the effect of the Targeted Radiofrequen...

We report the case of an 18-month-old child with infantile spasms and a hypsarrhythmic electroencephalogram (EEG) pattern associated with a porencephalic cyst. Surgical removal of the cyst and its surrounding tissue was performed following failure of medical therapy. Postoperatively, the patient has been free of infantile spasms for 12 months and the EEG has normalized. He has been maintained o...