Publications by authors named "A Chays"
Telemedicine, or remote medicine, has become an important tool for health care providers as a result of the SARS-Cov2 pandemic. It must be considered as a tool capable of improving the practice of modern medicine. This text reminds the rules of its practice and encourages the organization of teaching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Treatment of choice for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) by neurovascular conflict in case of failure of medical treatment is microvascular decompression (MVD). It is a safe and effective technique in the short and long term. But what about older patients who are considered more fragile anesthetically and surgically? Our Objective is to demonstrate the efficacy and complication rate of microvascular decompression (MVD) for older and younger patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) due to neurovascular conflict.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: When Ménière's disease (MD) becomes disabling due to the frequency of attacks or the appearance of drop attacks (i.e., Tumarkin otolithic crisis) despite "conservative" medical and surgical treatments, a radical treatment like vestibular neurotomy (VN) is possible.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze the efficacy and complications of microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm.
Study Design: Retrospective study.
Setting: Regional hospital.
Efficacy of microsurgical vascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia.
Eur Ann Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Dis
September 2020
Objectives: Analysis of the long-term efficacy of microvascular decompression surgery in trigeminal neuralgia.
Material And Methods: A single-center retrospective study included patients undergoing microvascular decompression surgery for trigeminal neuralgia after failure of well-conducted medical or complementary therapy, with visualization of nerve compression syndrome on MRI.
Results: Eighty-seven patients were included.