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TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA.
Acta Clinica Croatica 2022 September
Trigeminal neuralgia causes severe to excruciating pain that often cannot be successfully reduced with current forms of treatment. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines trigeminal neuralgia as a sudden, usually unilateral, powerful, short, stabbing, recurrent episode of pain in the distribution of one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve. Trigeminal neuralgia can be caused by vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve or a tumor process. Pressure on the nerve itself causes nerve demyelination, which is the cause of abnormal depolarization, resulting in the development of ectopic impulses. Pain can be provoked by brushing teeth, shaving, eating, cold, heat, etc. After diagnosing trigeminal neuralgia, magnetic resonance imaging should be performed to rule out multiple sclerosis, a tumor process that can secondarily cause trigeminal neuralgia. The drug of choice for treating trigeminal neuralgia is still carbamazepine. If pharmacological treatment fails, invasive surgical microvascular decompression, stereotactic radiation therapy (gamma knife), percutaneous balloon micro compression, percutaneous glycerol rhizolysis, and percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) may be used.
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