Ocular Motor Nerve Palsy After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Claims Database Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the common causes of ocular motor nerve (oculomotor nerve [CN3], trochlear nerve [CN4], and abducens nerve [CN6]) palsies, but there has been no large study of ocular motor nerve palsy caused by TBI. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of and differences in ocular motor nerve palsy after TBI, according to patient age and severity of TBI.

Methods

This was a population-based retrospective cohort study that included patients who had ocular motor nerve palsy after TBI with ≥6 months of continuous enrollment using claims data from the IBM MarketScan Research Databases (2007-2016). We assessed sex, age at the first diagnosis of TBI, the severity of TBI, and the rates of strabismus procedures according to the age and

SUBMITTER: Heo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10635738 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature