Long|Term Outcome of Repeat Microvascular Decompression for ...

Long-Term Outcome of Repeat Microvascular Decompression for ...

Results: At discharge, of 78 patients with repeat MVD, 72 (92.3%) achieved complete spasm resolution and 1 (2.6%) had significantly improved spasm resolution.

The Long-Term Outcome of Microvascular Decompression for ...

In a proportional-hazards model, immediate postoperative relief from tic after repeated surgery predicted excellent long-term outcome (P = 0.003) ...

Long-Term Outcome of Repeat Microvascular Decompression for ...

Repeat MVD provides lasting relief for most patients with persistent or recurrent HFS, albeit with a relatively high complication rate.

The long-term outcome of microvascular decompression ... - PubMed

Microvascular decompression is a safe and effective treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, with a high rate of long-term success.

Long-Term Outcome of Repeat Microvascular Decompression for ...

Permanent complications occurred in 14 patients (24.1%), with partial hearing loss and mild hemifacial paresis being the most common. Despite the complications, ...

Repeat microvascular decompression for patients with persistent or ...

Barker et al described the long-term results of MVD in 1185 TN patients, the results showed that 30% of the patients had recurrences of pain during the study ...

The long-term clinical outcomes of microvascular decompression for ...

The success rate was 96%. Three patients (13%) had pain recurrences, and one received a second MVD surgery for pain relief during the period of ...

Long-Term Retrospective Analysis of Re-do Microvascular ...

Recurrent HFS was defined as the resurgence of facial spasms on the same side after a previous successful MVD with complete symptom relief ...

Long-term follow-up of microvascular decompression for ...

MVD is an effective treatment of TN with sustained favorable outcome, viable studies are reporting significant improvement/relief of pain after ...

Long-Term Retrospective Analysis of Microvascular Decompression ...

Conclusions: Microvascular decompression (MVD) is an effective surgical method for the treatment of TN. For recurrent patients, reoperation can ...

Treatment of redo-microvascular decompression or internal ...

The primary goal of the repeat MVD treatment was to alleviate recurrent pressure on the trigeminal nerve induced by either a blood vessel or a ...

Microsurgical posterior fossa re-exploration for recurrent trigeminal ...

Microvascular decompression (MVD) is a well-accepted treatment modality for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) with high initial success rates.

Surgical Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia

MVD shows excellent pain control results in most cases. · In a long-term follow-up study, 68% and 73.4% of patients reported complete pain relief ...

Prospective Comparison of Redo Microvascular Decompression ...

Comparison of the outcomes for 110 patients who underwent redo MVD or PBC for recurrent trigeminal neuralgia is listed in Table 2. After redo ...

Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia Free

In contrast, MVD surgery is associated with an approximately 80% chance of pain freedom among carefully selected patients. This effect lasts for more than 10-20 ...

The Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Microvascular ...

For MVD+PSR, patients with a long duration of symptoms may have poor long-term outcomes, while patients with pure arterial compression may have ...

Repeat microvascular decompression for recurrent idiopathic ...

The results of this study demonstrated that repeat MVD was successful in 67% of the patients after 1 year. This success rate is comparable with ...

Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia - Elsevier

At the final evaluation, 83.4% of the patients achieved long-term pain relief (BNI I–III) after MVD; with excellent pain control (BNI I) in 84 patients (56%) ...

Effects of microvascular decompression on quality-of-life in ...

Some studies reported that MVD could provide better long-term pain relief and less facial sensory complication than gamma knife[ 13 , 14 , 31 , ...

Long-term efficacy of microvascular decompression in trigeminal ...

Among the eight patients undergoing rhizotomy, four (50%) had major pain recurrences and one (13%) had a minor recurrence, for a 63% total recurrence rate.