The pain management teams at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) and Queen Mary Hospital (QMH ...
Specialists explain why the condition occurs, how it’s diagnosed, and the range of medical and surgical options available ...
Microvascular decompression is a surgery to treat trigeminal neuralgia. A neurosurgeon relieves pressure (typically from a blood vessel) around the trigeminal nerve (sensory nerve running along your ...
A percutaneous rhizotomy is a minimally invasive procedure to treat trigeminal neuralgia. Our surgeons use a small needle to make a controlled, minor injury to one of your facial nerves (your ...
Scientists have developed a novel concept of a nose-to-brain system for the clinical application of neuropeptides. They developed a derivative of glucagon-like peptide-2 and found that when ...
Expert Rev Neurother. 2007;7(11):1565-1579. The rationale for treating TN with AEDs traces back to Trousseau's 1853 clinical description of what he termed, "névralgie épileptiforme," noting that the ...
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Why Trigeminal Neuralgia is called the suicide disease and how its pain becomes unbearable
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is often described as one of the most excruciating pain disorders known to medicine. It’s sometimes referred to as the “suicide disease” because of the unbearable intensity ...
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