Sentences with phrase «with blepharospasm»
LA JOLLA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around the eye — they'll often come away with two different conclusions on the severity of the patient's symptoms.
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The updated guideline covers four neurologic disorders: spasticity in adults, which is muscle tightness that interferes with movement typically following a stroke, spinal cord or other neurologic injury; cervical dystonia, a disorder of the brain affecting neck muscle control that causes involuntary head tilt or neck movement; blepharospasm, a movement disorder that causes the eyes to close uncontrollably; and chronic and episodic migraine.
The guideline determined that botulinum toxin is generally safe and effective for treating spasticity in adults, cervical dystonia, blepharospasm and chronic migraine, according to guideline author David M. Simpson, MD, with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
Corneal irritation leads to trigeminal activation causing excessive tear production (lacrimation), mild conjunctivitis and blepharospasm, which are the most common signs associated with the condition, presented as epiphora and squinting of the eyes [7, 9, 15].
Blepharospasm is not a disease in and of itself; it is a clinical sign that something is wrong with the eye or eyelid in most cases.