Postoperative complications of microvascular decompression for facial muscle spasm

  Facial muscle spasm is a common cranial nerve disease, mainly manifested as paroxysmal involuntary twitching on one side of the face, so this disease is also called facial muscle twitching, commonly known as facial twitching. Most of the facial muscle spasms start from one side of the eyelid jumping, which is usually called eyelid jumping, and there is a folk saying that the left eye jumps for wealth and the right eye jumps for disaster, so it is often not taken seriously at the beginning of the course of the disease. In the later stages, as the disease gradually develops and evolves, it extends to the twitching of the corners of the nose and mouth, and even the twitching and jumping of the entire facial muscles, or even the twitching of the neck muscles in severe cases.  The disease of facial muscle spasm is not fatal, but it is also very harmful. This frequent facial twitching makes the patient’s face very unnatural, very tortured and distracting, which seriously affects normal work, life and study. It can also cause great psychological and mental frustration and torture to the patient, and some people suffer from depression and even have the tendency to commit suicide. So if you suffer from facial spasm, then you should treat it in time and not delay.  For the treatment of facial muscle spasm, the ordinary conservative medical treatment methods, like medication, acupuncture, botulinum toxin treatment, closure treatment, etc., these methods are often not complete, the effect is not ideal. The standard treatment for area spasm is currently recognized by the medical community as microvascular decompression. By making a 2~5 cm incision behind the ear, the vascular-neural anatomical relationship of the facial nerve root is explored, the responsible blood vessel compressing the facial nerve root is found and the compression is released, and a special medical spacer is used to isolate it to prevent the formation of secondary compression. This method is technically mature and effective.  Some patients ask about the complications after microvascular decompression surgery for facial muscle spasm. In fact, the technology of microvascular decompression surgery for facial spasm is very mature, and most of them will not have postoperative complications, only a very small number of cases may have some postoperative discomfort symptoms, but basically they will be relieved soon, so basically there is no need to worry about this problem.