A Rare Case of Cranial Nerve VII Neuropraxia Associated with Alveolar Nerve Blocks

CASE PRESENTATION: A 26-year-old male presented to our emergency department for six days of right-sided facial myasthenia and parasthesias following a dental procedure using anesthetic nerve blocks. DISCUSSION: Iatrogenic cranial nerve VII neuropraxia, a peripheral nerve injury, is an uncommon compl...

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Autores principales: Allegra, Stephen, Church, Richard, Sudireddy, Veera
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8143834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34437027
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2021.4.51264
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description CASE PRESENTATION: A 26-year-old male presented to our emergency department for six days of right-sided facial myasthenia and parasthesias following a dental procedure using anesthetic nerve blocks. DISCUSSION: Iatrogenic cranial nerve VII neuropraxia, a peripheral nerve injury, is an uncommon complication of alveolar nerve blocks with few documented cases specifically due to dental anesthesia. Treatment usually involves use of oral corticosteroid and/or antiviral medications along with close follow-up in clinic with a neurologist and/or otolaryngologist.
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spelling pubmed-81438342021-05-28 A Rare Case of Cranial Nerve VII Neuropraxia Associated with Alveolar Nerve Blocks Allegra, Stephen Church, Richard Sudireddy, Veera Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine CASE PRESENTATION: A 26-year-old male presented to our emergency department for six days of right-sided facial myasthenia and parasthesias following a dental procedure using anesthetic nerve blocks. DISCUSSION: Iatrogenic cranial nerve VII neuropraxia, a peripheral nerve injury, is an uncommon complication of alveolar nerve blocks with few documented cases specifically due to dental anesthesia. Treatment usually involves use of oral corticosteroid and/or antiviral medications along with close follow-up in clinic with a neurologist and/or otolaryngologist. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8143834/ /pubmed/34437027 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2021.4.51264 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Allegra et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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title_full A Rare Case of Cranial Nerve VII Neuropraxia Associated with Alveolar Nerve Blocks
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Cranial Nerve VII Neuropraxia Associated with Alveolar Nerve Blocks
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title_short A Rare Case of Cranial Nerve VII Neuropraxia Associated with Alveolar Nerve Blocks
title_sort rare case of cranial nerve vii neuropraxia associated with alveolar nerve blocks
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