Publications by authors named "Nipat Aui-aree"
Purpose: To compare Thais' health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and severity grading, efficacy and safety in daily-life-affected benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) patients at baseline and after Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) treatment.
Design: Prospective-observational study.
Participants: BEB patients with Jankovic rating scale (JRS) at least 3 in both severity and frequency graded from 14 institutes nationwide were included from August 2020 to June 2021.
Purpose: To evaluate the correlations between relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) magnitude, assessed using the clinical plus scale and neutral density filters, and visual field parameters in patients with unilateral or asymmetrical bilateral optic neuropathy or retinopathy.
Methods: Fifty-two patients with RAPD, graded by the swinging flashlight test and neutral density filters, were analyzed in this cross-sectional trial. The RAPD clinical plus scale was divided into grade 1+, initial weak constriction; grade 2+, initial stall then dilatation; grade 3+, immediate dilatation; and grade 4+, fixed amaurotic pupil.
Patients with ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG) are frequently treated to prevent the development of generalized myasthenia gravis (GMG). This retrospective cohort study aimed to assess prognostic factors associated with conversion to GMG.We analyzed the time from the onset of OMG symptoms to GMG in relation to demographic variables, clinical findings, initial investigation results, and treatment regimens using Kaplan-Meier survival curves and multivariate Cox proportional regression analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: An immediate neuroimaging investigation in patients with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy (ONP) remains controversial. We aimed to develop a clinical prediction score to determine whether or not acquired isolated ONP patients require prompt imaging.
Methods: A retrospective study was performed.
Objective: To compare hemifacial spasm treatment results between Botulinum toxin A split injection sites and Botulinum toxin A non-split injection sites.
Material And Method: Thirty-one hemifacial spasm patients were randomly assigned into the non-split injection sites group (injecting Botulinum toxin A to the zygomaticus major and risorius each) or split injection sites group with the same amount of Botulinum toxin A as the first method (injection Botulinum toxin A to the zygomaticus major and minor and risorius two injections each) The main outcomes are onset of improvement and effective duration of treatment.
Results: Fifteen patients were assigned to non-split injection sites group and 16 patients were assigned to split injection sites group.
Purpose: To calculate the incidence of, and to identify the risk factors for developing contralateral eye involvement among patients with AIDS and unilateral cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMV retinitis), who were treated, in the era of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), with repetitive intravitreal ganciclovir injections.
Materials And Methods: The clinical records of 119 patients were included. The main outcome measurement was the occurrence of contralateral eye involvement.
Purpose: To calculate the incidence of, and to identify the risk factors for developing contralateral eye involvement among patients with AIDS and unilateral cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMV retinitis), who were treated, in the era of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), with repetitive intravitreal ganciclovir injections.
Materials And Methods: The clinical records of 119 patients were included. The main outcome measurement was the occurrence of contralateral eye involvement.
Objectives: To present the clinical features, determine the causes and evaluate the prognosis of orbital apex syndrome in patients of Songklanagarind Hospital.
Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of patients diagnosed with orbital apex syndrome between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2008.
Results: In our series, the major cause of orbital apex syndrome was carotid-cavernous sinus fistula, for which 30 patients were diagnosed.
Objective: To investigate the correlation between clinical grading in plus scale and quantified relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) using the neutral density filter bar.
Material And Method: This was a prospective analytical cross sectional study. Sixty-nine patients of any ocular disease with relative afferent pupillary defects were prospectively examined.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of ice application in reducing pain during botulinum toxin type A injections.
Design: Prospective, randomized, single-blind clinical study.
Material And Method: Sixty patients who underwent botulinum toxin A treatment on their faces were included in the present study, divided into three groups, group 1 had ice applied 5 minutes before the injection, group 2 ice was applied 5 minutes after the injection, and group 3 served as a control, receiving an injection without ice application.
Objective: To examine pre-treatment ophthalmic presentations and treatment results and to identify factors that may influence improved visual outcomes in patients with suprasellar tumor
Material And Method: The medical records of patients with suprasellar tumors who were diagnosed between July 2005 and June 2008 in the neuro-ophthalmology clinic of Songklanagarind Hospital were retrospectively reviewed by two ophthalmologists. Pre-treatment ophthalmic presentations and treatment results were analyzed. Determinants of improved visual outcomes were identified by using univariate and multivariate regression analysis.
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic granulomatous vasculitis of large and medium size vessels in the elderly. A new-onset headache is the most frequent symptom. An anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) is one of the most common causes of permanent visual loss.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the demographics, clinical features, treatment, and visual outcomes of progressive outer retinal necrosis (PORN) in a group of Thai patients.
Material And Method: All cases of AIDS with a clinical diagnosis of PORN in a major tertiary referral hospital in southern Thailand between January 2003 and June 2007 were retrospectively reviewed. Demographic data, clinical features, treatment regimens, and visual outcomes were analyzed.
Objective: To investigate the reliability and validity of the Thai version of disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument for patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) as well as their response to botulinum toxin treatment.
Material And Method: A Thai version of HFS-30 has been developed with the permission of the author. Thirty patients with HFS were asked to complete this Thai HFS-30, the 6-point disability scale before treatment and between four and six weeks after botulinum toxin injections.