Swallow-Induced Eyelid Myokymia: A Novel Synkinesis Syndrome

Amrita Amanda D. Vuppala; Gregory J. Griepentrog; Ryan D. Walsh

doi:10.1080/01658107.2019.1587637

Swallow-Induced Eyelid Myokymia: A Novel Synkinesis Syndrome

Amrita Amanda D. Vuppala, Gregory J. Griepentrog, Ryan D. Walsh

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Abstract

Herein, we describe a novel manifestation of facial nerve synkinesis, swallow-induced eyelid myokymia, and hypothesise that this phenomenon is due to synkinetic facial nerve innervations of the stylohyoid-posterior digastric complex of suprahyoid muscles and orbicularis oculi muscle. In our patient’s case, onabotulinum toxin A treatment provided good therapeutic response. Swallow-induced eyelid myokymia is a unique and previously unreported variety of facial nerve synkinesis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	108-110
Number of pages	3
Journal	Neuro-Ophthalmology
Volume	44
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01658107.2019.1587637
State	Published - Mar 3 2020

Keywords

Myokymia
aberrant regeneration
benign eyelid myokymia
facial nerve
swallow
synkinesis

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Ophthalmology
Clinical Neurology

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