Prediction of early recovery in patients with acute peripheral facial paralysis using serial electroneuronography.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to determine the preferred timing and measurement sites for electroneuronography (ENoG) to predict early recovery from acute peripheral facial paralysis.

Methods

We retrospectively evaluated 42 patients with acute peripheral facial paralysis who received standard treatment with oral corticosteroids. The severity of facial paralysis was assessed at the initial visit and after 1 month using the House-Brackmann grading system. Patients were classified into recovery and non-recovery groups according to changes in the grade. ENoG was performed at the initial visit and after 2 weeks. ENoG amplitudes of four facial muscles (frontalis, nasalis, orbicularis oculi, and orbicularis oris) at the initial visit and after 2 weeks, as well as age, sex, affected s

SUBMITTER: Jo YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12671828 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature