Background/aims In patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS), treatment relieves eyelid spasms on the affected side, thus changes in corneal topography and eyelid morphometry may be observed after ...

Lifestyle factors, including stress, caffeine, screen time, and light exposure, can act as triggers for HFS, making patient ...

Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a craniofacial movement disorder characterized by involuntary contractions of the muscles on one side of the face 1. The most common site for the contractures is the ...

Background The movement disorder known as hemifacial spasm is characterized by involuntary contractions of the muscles that are innervated by the facial nerve. The treatment of choice for this ...

A 40-year-old man, who had been suffering with hemifacial spasms, a rare neurological condition that causes involuntary facial twitching (spasms) on one side, was successfully operated upon and ...

Hemifacial spasm is a chronic neurological condition characterized by involuntary facial muscle contractions caused by nerve compression. While familiar to specialists, it is less known to the public ...

Hemifacial spasms (HFS) is a chronic condition that affects people in various age groups. THE WEEK spoke to one such patient, Varsha Atre, who suffered from HFS in her 30s but found that there was a ...

Hemifacial spasm (HFS) that patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) can experience upon standing — even after undergoing a lumbar puncture — may be due to the degree of change in ...

After ruling these out, which was good news, the doctors performed a special sequence MRI, which helped them pinpoint a hemifacial spasm, a condition where a nerve bumps into a major blood vessel ...

Injection with botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) for hemifacial spasm (HFS) may have an additional benefit: decreasing unilateral eyelid spasms and intraocular pressure (IOP), according to a small ...