Therapy of Hemifacial Spasm with Botulinum Toxin: an Update].

Wolfgang H Jost, Rainer Laskawi, Anja Palmowski-Wolfe, Björn Spittau, Peter P Urban

Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie 2022 Jan

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Injections of botulinum toxin can be viewed by now as the therapy of choice in treating hemifacial spasm (HFS). Each of the three botulinum toxin-A preparations have been approved for this indication in Germany. HFS is a frequent disease characterized by involuntary contractions of the muscles of one half of the face innervated by the facial nerve. The symptoms can be either tonic or clonic, intermittant or permanent. Diagnosis is based purely on clinical observation. A magnetic resonance imagingof the skull is appropriate to demonstrate nerve-vessel contact as most frequent cause and to exclude other pathologies. Thieme. All rights reserved.

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Wolfgang H Jost, Rainer Laskawi, Anja Palmowski-Wolfe, Björn Spittau, Peter P Urban. Therapy of Hemifacial Spasm with Botulinum Toxin: an Update]. Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie. 2022 Jan;90(1-02):37-41