Masseter muscle function after percutaneous balloon compression of trigeminal ganglion for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: a neurophysiological follow-up study.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate by longitudinal neurophysiological examinations the natural course of masseter muscle weakness that developed after percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) of the trigeminal ganglion for the treatment of idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.

Methods: The affected side of 15 patients (mean age 69.5±4.

Interictal alterations of cardiovagal function in chronic epilepsy.

Aim: To assess the function of parasympathetic heart control in patients with epilepsy by means of clinical routine neurophysiology.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-one consecutive epileptic patients (mean age+/-S.D.

Epileptic seizures as the sole manifestation of neuro-Behçet's disease: complete control under interferon-alpha treatment.

Behçet's disease (BD) is a multisystemic disease of unknown etiopathogenesis with various clinical features including manifestations from central nervous system involvement. We report the case of a patient presented with a 20-year history of BD and a 10-year history of epileptic seizures refractory to various antiepileptic drugs. Under systemic treatment with interferon-alpha 2a (IFN-alpha) a complete remission of the cutaneous manifestations and a seizure-free state were achieved.

Short-term oral isotretinoin therapy does not cause clinical or subclinical peripheral neuropathy.

Background: Subclinical neurophysiologic abnormalities mainly suggestive of sensory fibers dysfunction were observed in some patients after 1 and 3 months of treatment with oral acitretin. Moreover, two cases of peripheral sensory neuropathy and one of sensorimotor polyneuropathy were observed after short-term oral administration of this compound.

Objective: The objective of this prospective study was to investigate whether short-term treatment with oral isotretinoin can also affect peripheral nerve function.