ArticleBrain sciences2022
Surgical and Clinical Outcomes of Microvascular Decompression: A Comparative Study between Young and Elderly Patients.
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- The role of intraoperative neuromonitoring in microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: results from a systematic review of the literature.Neurosurgical review · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical Characteristics and Early Pain Outcomes After Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- The therapeutic potential of pegylated arginase I treatment in glioblastoma.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- [Surgical treatment of trigeminal pain].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Review
- Factors associated with outcomes following microvascular decompression for the treatment of primary trigeminal neuralgia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of dental anesthesia and pain medicine · 2024Review
- Modern Approaches to the Treatment of Acute Facial Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Microvascular Decompression: An Effective Approach for Trigeminal Neuralgia Caused by a Dolichoectatic Basilar Artery after Multiple Treatment Failures.Journal of neurological surgery reports · 2024Article
- Trigeminal neuralgia.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024Review
- Advanced Age May Not Be an Absolute Contraindication for Radical Nephroureterectomy in Patients with Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: A Single-Center Case Series and a Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Outcome Comparison of Drug-Resistant Trigeminal Neuralgia Surgical Treatments-An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- The role of artificial intelligence in the management of trigeminal neuralgia.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Review
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Abstract
Microvascular decompression (MVD) is the only etiological technique for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (TN). Whilst there is a consensus MVD is likely effective regardless of age, the elderly population is thought to be more prone to have a higher rate of surgical complication, morbidity, and mortality. The main objective of our single-center, retrospective study was to analyze the surgical and clinical outcomes of MVD in TN elderly patients. From a surgical series of patients with TN who had undergone MVD from April 2018 to April 2022, 76 patients who matched the inclusion criteria were divided into two groups: twenty-five (32.9%) patients were older than 65 years and included in the elderly group, while the remaining fifty-one (61.1%) patients were below 65 years included in the non-elderly one. There were no differences between the groups in terms of acute pain relief (APR), Barrow Neurological Index (BNI) at follow-up, complications, and recurrence rate. In multivariate analysis (Cox proportional hazards regression analysis) the presence of an offending artery with nerve root distortion/indentation emerged as the only independent prognostic factor for pain-free survival (
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