Bilateral Facial Spasm Following Guillain–Barré Syndrome

BACKGROUND: We report a patient who developed lower facial muscle spasm at rest and bilateral facial synkinesis several months after treatment of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS); this finding, to our knowledge, is hitherto unreported. PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN: Bilateral synkinesis, facial muscles spasm at...

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Autores principales: Guduru, Zain, Morgan, John, Sethi, Kapil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29971193
http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D83X9PPX
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description BACKGROUND: We report a patient who developed lower facial muscle spasm at rest and bilateral facial synkinesis several months after treatment of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS); this finding, to our knowledge, is hitherto unreported. PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN: Bilateral synkinesis, facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral postparalytic facial syndrome. EDUCATIONAL VALUE: Aberrant regeneration of nerve fibers post GBS, resulting in facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral synkinesis.
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spelling pubmed-60262832018-07-03 Bilateral Facial Spasm Following Guillain–Barré Syndrome Guduru, Zain Morgan, John Sethi, Kapil Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) Video Abstracts BACKGROUND: We report a patient who developed lower facial muscle spasm at rest and bilateral facial synkinesis several months after treatment of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS); this finding, to our knowledge, is hitherto unreported. PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN: Bilateral synkinesis, facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral postparalytic facial syndrome. EDUCATIONAL VALUE: Aberrant regeneration of nerve fibers post GBS, resulting in facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral synkinesis. Columbia University Libraries/Information Services 2018-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6026283/ /pubmed/29971193 http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D83X9PPX Text en © 2018 Guduru et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommerical–No Derivatives License, which permits the user to copy, distribute, and transmit the work provided that the original author and source are credited; that no commercial use is made of the work; and that the work is not altered or transformed.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026283/
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