Research of the nimodipine in the prevention of delayed facial palsy after microvascular decompression / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To research the effect of nimodipine in the prevention and treatment of delayed facial palsy after microvas-cular decompression .Methods A retrospective analysis was taken from January 2009 to March 2012 ,193 cases of patients with fa-cial spasm undergoing MVD in our department .According to whether applied vasodilators after operation ,all cases were divided into two groupsthe experimental group(72 cases)with the treatment of nimodipine for two weeks ;the control group(121 cases) ,and not treated with nimodipine .The follow-up time was 6-12 months .Observe and compare the incidence ,level of delayed facial paraly-sis onset time and disease duration time between two groups .Results In the experimental group had 6 cases of late facial paralysis , the incidence was 8 .3% (6/72) ,onset time was (14 .5 ± 5 .2)days ,disease duration was (41 .3 ± 14 .4)days .The incidence of control group was 9 .1% (11/121) ,onset time was (12 .2 ± 7 .4)days ,disease duration was (55 .7 ± 36 .4)days .There was no significant difference between groups(P>0 .05) .According to House-Brackman classification ,there were 4 cases of grade Ⅱ and 2 cases of grade Ⅲ in experimental group .In control group ,there were 2 cases of grade Ⅱ ,6 cases of grade Ⅲ ,3 cases of grade Ⅳ .The differ-ence was statistically significant (P<0 .05) .Conclusion The delayed facial paralysis is influenced by a variety of causes .Vasodila-tor drugs can reduce the incidence of delayed facial paralysis ,and play a certain role in promoting facial paralysis restored .