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78. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie e. V.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie e. V.

16.05. - 20.05.2007, München

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Long-term results after idiopathic facial paralysis

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  • corresponding author Konstantinos Mantsopoulos - 1st Academic ENT Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Athanasia Printza - 2nd Academic Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • George Psillas - 1st Academic ENT Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Jannis Constantinidis - 1st Academic ENT Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. 78th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. Munich, 16.-20.05.2007. Düsseldorf, Köln: German Medical Science; 2007. Doc07hno081

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Veröffentlicht: 8. August 2007

© 2007 Mantsopoulos et al.
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The aim of the study was to determine the long-term recovery after Bell’s palsy and evaluate specific parameters and diagnostic procedures in predicting the long-term outcome of the disease. Forty-four patients, fifteen (15) men, twenty-one (21) women and eight (8) children, with idiopathic facial nerve paralysis were examined retrospectively and re-examined one to six years after the onset of the disease (average: 4.01 years). The failure rate of complete recovery was studied for each of these four factors: age, nerve excitability test (NET), initial severity of paralysis according to House-Brackmann scale grading and number of days from onset of paralysis to the beginning of medical treatment. For the twenty-two (22) patients, who underwent electroneurography at the onset of the disease, the correlation between the percentage of facial nerve fibre degeneration of the paralysed side and the long-term recovery was studied. From the 44 patients of our sample, 24 (54.5%) had House-Brackmann I, 8 patients (18.2%) had ΙΙ, 8 (18.2%) ΙΙΙ, three (6.8%) IV and a single patient (2.3%) V. According to our data, only the initial House-Brackmann grading of facial paralysis showed a statistically significant relationship with poor prognosis of the disease. Additionally, the percentage of facial nerve fibre degeneration of the paralysed side was found to have a statistical significant relationship with the long-term recovery after Bell’s palsy.