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

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

While our success rate of immediate pain relief after surgery was comparable with some reports, the percentage of patients who had pain ...

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

Tatli et al. compared long term effectiveness of all surgical procedures for TN and demonstrated that success rate of immediate pain relief of ...

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

By Kaplan–Meier analysis, postoperative survival was 93 percent after 10 years and 70 percent after 20 years. At the time of operation, the ...

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

Major complications included two deaths shortly after the operation (0.2 percent) and one brain-stem infarction (0.1 percent). Sixteen patients ...

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

Results. Complete pain relief (off medication) achieved in 71% of patients at 10 years. Overall 84% of responders to questionnaires expressed satisfaction with ...

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

Headache, dizziness, and nausea were observed in eight patients which improved within less than a week, confusion occurred in one patient which ...

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

7, 8, 9, 10, 11 For example, Engh et al7 reported the results of repeat MVD in 34 patients at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the United States, ...

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

Among patients who underwent MVD, 62.5% of the patients maintained favorable outcomes at the last follow-up. This result was similar to the MVD ...

The outcomes of microvascular decompression for primary ...

These variations have shown a significant success rate, providing long-term pain relief in about 70% of cases, on average (8, 16, 17).

Long-Term Retrospective Analysis of Microvascular Decompression ...

In addition to hearing loss, CSF leakage and wound infection, 80 (62.99%) patients suffered from facial numbness postoperatively in this study.

Immediate and Long-Term Outcomes of Microvascular ...

Patients with mixed TN suffer from both classic and atypical TN symptoms. Following MVD, 91.8% of our patients with mixed TN reported partial or complete pain ...

Surgical and Clinical Outcomes of Microvascular Decompression

This suggests elderly patients can be safely referred to MVD surgery with excellent early and long-term pain outcomes and without an increased ...

Long-term results of microvascular decompression for trigeminal ...

Sixty-one patients with trigeminal neuralgia who underwent microvascular decompression were analysed. Vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve root was ...

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 ...

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 , ...

Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia - Elsevier

The surgical results, including pain relief according to the Barrow Neurological Institute pain scale, complications and the medical treatment during the follow ...

Microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia - a prospective ...

The most frequent major complications were permanent hearing impairment (10%), permanent severe hypoesthesia (7%), permanent ataxia (7%), and ...

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

The mean duration of pain-free survival was 70.77 months. In conclusions, TN due to VBD appears to be more likely in males, in those with hypertension, and to ...

Long-term outcome of microvascular decompression for typical ...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate the long-term outcome of microvascular decompression (MVD) utilizing autologous muscle for ...

Immediate and Long-Term Outcomes of Microvascular ...

Following MVD, 91.8% of our patients with mixed TN reported partial or complete pain relief, including improvement of atypical pain, in the immediate ...