What are the main causes of hemifacial spasm?

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Hemifacial spasm is indeed a disease that is harmful to health after suffering from it. Therefore, we need to understand the causes of the disease, so that we can achieve thorough and effective prevention in our daily life. The following is the main cause of hemifacial spasm.

What are the main causes of hemifacial spasm?

Some kind of compression causes pathological interference in facial nerve conduction. Hemifacial spasm is mainly caused by the pathological interference of facial nerve conduction caused by certain compression. It is often caused by the compression of posterior inferior cerebellar artery, anterior inferior cerebellar artery and vertebral nerve artery, and occasionally by the compression of facial nerve roots such as aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations or brain tumors. This is the main cause of hemifacial spasm.

Idiopathic facial paralysis. Another part of patients is due to idiopathic facial paralysis, when the body recovers, secondary side muscle spasm occurs, which is also a common cause of facial spasm. It may also be due to the pathological changes of demyelination caused by facial neuritis.

After trauma, tumor or surgery. A very small number of patients because of traumatic tumor, surgical operation after the occurrence of side muscle spasm, the reason is due to the facial nerve recovery process and other brain nerve short circuit, make other nerve excited also appear side facial muscle twitch caused.

matters needing attention

Everyone suffering from upper muscle spasm must immediately go to the hospital for treatment, early treatment can control the disease, serious time will delay the disease, will cause more serious damage to the patient's body.