Prevalencia de parálisis de Bell en pacientes con antecedentes de migraña en el Hospital de Especialidades Dr. Teodoro Maldonado Carbo.

Abstract

Bell's palsy consists of motor dysfunction due to inflammation of the infratemporal portion of the seventh cranial nerve; while migraine is a chronic pathology characterized by recurrent headache that can manifest with or without aura; both associated with various cerebrovascular disorders such as cranial nerve involvement; For this reason, the present study seeks to determine if migraine increases or favors the risk of suffering from Bell's palsy, identifying a probable relationship between said pathologies. This research was carried out at the specialty hospital "Dr. Teodoro Maldonado Carbo", based on the information that was obtained from the medical records that rest in the files of the aforementioned hospital. This selection included patients over nineteen years of age with a history of migraine and/or a history or current clinical picture of Bell's palsy; while the patients excluded from the study were those who were minors or who presented an active infectious process during Bell's palsy condition. A total of 1378 patients were included in the analysis, of which 64.08% presented migraine, while 38.53% had Bell's palsy. However, the patients who presented both clinical pictures were a total of 36 patients (2.61%), the majority being women (69.4%). These results were not statistically significant, so it was concluded that the prevalence of Bell's palsy in patients with migraine is minimal and is not a predisposing factor for developing this pathology.