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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA.
Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program, Infectious Diseases Institute, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA.
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Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
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Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
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Department of Developmental, Molecular, and Chemical Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York, USA.
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A man in his 70s presented with a 4-day history of bilateral frontal headache and heaviness of the face. He was unable to close either of his eyes, to wrinkle his forehead bilaterally and to raise eit...
Peripheral facial palsy is a common clinical symptom and is most often caused by Bell's palsy. The pathogenesis is largely unknown, but inflammation of the facial nerve, possibly after a viral infecti...
In the Division of Pediatric Neurology at the University Medical Center Göttingen we observed that many patients with Bell palsy are overweight or obese. To evaluate whether overweight and obesity are...
For risk assessment, patients' body mass indices (BMIs) were compared with BMI data of controls from a nationwide child health survey....
In total, 202 patients with peripheral facial nerve palsies (pFPs) were included, of which nearly half were classified as Bell palsies; 38% and 24% of the patients with Bell palsy and pFP had a BMI ab...
We could confirm our observation that overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of Bell palsy in children....
This study aimed to evaluate the readability and quality of current online information on Bell's palsy....
A Google search using the terms 'Bell's palsy' and 'facial palsy' was performed separately. The first three pages of results were analysed. Readability was assessed using Flesch Reading Ease Score, Fl...
A total of 31 websites met the inclusion criteria. The mean Flesch Reading Ease Score, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, the Gunning Fox Index and the Simple Measure of Gobbledygook scores were 52.45 (95 pe...
Online information on Bell's palsy is generally of fair quality but is written above the recommended reading age guidance in the UK....
BACKGROUND The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between Bell's palsy (BP) and cerebral white matter lesions (CWMLs) on brain gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MA...
Peripheral facial palsy is a common clinical symptom and is most often caused by Bell's palsy. The pathogenesis is largely unknown, but inflammation of the facial nerve, possibly after a viral infecti...
From 1821 to 1829, Sir Charles Bell presented cases of facial paralysis from infection, trauma, and unknown causes. As such, "Bell's palsy" initially referred to facial palsy of any etiology. Today, t...
Extensive review of available 19th and 20th century literature mentioning "Bell's palsy" and "Bell's paralysis."...
Historical accounts have eponymously attached Bell's name to facial paralysis as early as the 1840s-Bell's palsy was first used to describe cases of facial palsy of any cause. In 1886, Gowers characte...
The semantic change of a word over time can tell us a remarkable story of its history and origins. Absence of a discrete lesion, lack of proven treatment, and good prognosis without intervention disti...
To explore the pathogenesis of Bell's palsy using the diffusion tensor image on 3.0 T MR. The healthy people and the patients with Bell's palsy underwent intraparotid facial nerve scanning by using th...
The plasma atherogenic index (AIP) is used as an indicator of cardiovascular risk. Abnormal lipid levels have been shown to potentially contribute to facial nerve inflammation observed in Bell's palsy...
AIP is calculated using the equation Log (triglyceride [mg/dL]/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [mg/dL]). The study was conducted prospectively on 79 patients diagnosed with Bell's palsy. The Hous...
In total, 79 patients [45 (57%) male and 34 (43% female] with Bell's palsy were included to the study. The mean (SD) age was 54.1 (16.5). In multivariable analyses prediction of unrecovered patients, ...
AIP is associated with advanced-stage facial paralysis at the time of Bell's palsy diagnosis and can be used as a poor prognostic indicator....
To investigate whether dysregulated thyroid hormone function is associated with Bell's palsy....
Cross-sectional....
Electronic medical record database of Clalit Health Services (CHS). CHS is an Israeli payer-provider, integrated health care system, serving >4.5 million members (54% of the Israeli population)....
Older than 18 years with Bell's palsy, during 2002 to 2019....
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A total of 1,374 patients with Bell's palsy who had thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) blood levels measured up to 60 days before the palsy were matched (1:2) for age and sex with 2,748 controls who ha...
Retrospective review of the CHS database, from 2002 to 2019 yielded 11,268 patients with Bell's palsy, of which, 1,374 met the inclusion criteria. Mean age was 57.9 years, and 61.4% were female. A hig...
Subclinical hyperthyroidism is independently associated with Bell's palsy after controlling for multiple confounding factors....