Enucleation and development of cluster headache: a retrospective study

Sörös, Peter; Vo, Oanh; Gerding, H.; Husstedt, Ingo W.; Evers, Stefan

doi:10.1186/1471-2377-5-6

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“…Some patients experience hallucinations associated with loss of vision, and for a small portion of patients, their hallucinations can be debilitating 9-11 . In some patients the missing eye also gives rise to phantom pain and headaches 12, 13 . Personal accounts of the difficulties of losing an eye and associated coping strategies are useful in understanding these phenomena 4, 15-16 .…”

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Health-Related Quality of Life After Surgical Removal of an Eye

Kondo¹,

Tillman

Schwartz

et al. 2013

Ophthalmic Plastic &Amp; Reconstructive Surgery

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Purpose This study compared the general health related quality of life (HRQOL) and the vision specific HRQOL in patients following the surgical removal of one eye who had good vision in the remaining eye to a group of binocular patients with good vision in both eyes. Methods The Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12 (SF-12) and the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ) health related quality of life (HRQOL) surveys were administered to 29 patients who had surgical removal of an eye who attended an ocular prosthetics clinic and to 25 binocular persons who accompanied a patient. All subjects in each group had best corrected visual acuity of 20/40 or better. Overall statistical significance was tested using Cramer's V followed by individual t-tests for independent groups for each of the scales on the two questionnaires to determine if the means between the two groups differed statistically. Results The patient group had a mean age of 50.98 years (range 19 to 76). The control group had a mean age of 49.46 years (range 18 to 76). The mean time after loss of vision was 28.03 years (range 1-71 years) and the mean time from surgical removal of the eye was 23.6 years (range 0.5 to 59.5). There was an overall significant difference between the two groups on the 15 derived subscales of the two forms (Cramer's V, p = 0.0025). Three general HRQOL subscales (SF-12- mental component summary (MCS), SF-12 physical component summary (PCS), NEI VFQ-General Health) showed no differences between the two groups (p = 0.48, p = 0.81, p = 0.78 respectively). Three of the twelve vision specific NEI VFQ subscales demonstrated statistically significant differences between the patient and control groups: peripheral vision (p = 0.0006), role difficulties (p = 0.015) and the composite score (p = 0.014). Additionally, two monocular patients had given up driving compared to no binocular subjects (p = 0.056). Conclusions This population of monocular patients had general physical and mental HRQOL equivalent to the normal binocular group despite the surgical removal of one eye. However, the reduced vision specific HRQOL of monocular patients on the NEI VFQ indicates that there are substantial residual visual deficits even after prolonged monocular status.

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Health-Related Quality of Life After Surgical Removal of an Eye

Kondo¹,

Tillman

Schwartz

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Ophthalmic Plastic &Amp; Reconstructive Surgery

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“…On the other hand, we can reasonably assume that the role played by head trauma may be predominant over that of eye enucleation. If one compares the causes that led to eye enucleation in 112 patients, none of whom developed CH, who were observed by Sörös et al [34] versus the seven patients with CH reported by other authors [20,[22][23][24]30], it can be seen that head trauma was involved in only 35.7% of the former cases and in as much as 71.4% of the latter. Therefore, we think that two different aspects should be considered and discussed separately.…”

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Head trauma and cluster headache

Manzoni

Lambru

Torelli

2006

Current Science Inc

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Post-traumatic cluster headache (CH) is a very rare occurrence. Only one such case has been verified in the literature thus far. On the other hand, a non-casual association is almost certain to exist between previous head trauma and future CH onset. Considering the generally long interval of time separating the two events, it is not easy to accurately explain the nature of the head trauma/CH relationship. Head trauma may damage extra- or intracranial peripheral or central nervous structures, hence predisposing to the future development of CH. However, there also is the possibility that previous head injuries may be more frequent among CH patients because of their lifestyle, which may leave them more exposed to the risk of traumatic events.

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“…Phantom pain is a form of neuropathic pain [ 20 ], which may be caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system [ 21 ], or may be related to damage of central or peripheral neurons [ 22 ]. It is defined as a feeling of pain in the limb that is no longer present [ 8 , 12 , 13 , 23 , 24 ], being considered an aftereffect of amputation [ 24 ] and affecting a large proportion of amputees, with an incidence of 50–85% [ 20 , 22 , 25 – 28 ].…”

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“…Phantom eye syndrome is classified as painless and painful sensations referred to the amputated eye and clearly distinguishable from both cicatrix pain and any other sensory disturbances in or around the cicatrix [ 11 ], and it is always associated with phantom vision, phantom pain, and phantom sensations [ 8 , 10 , 12 , 13 ]. After limb amputation, more than 90% of patients experience phantom phenomena [ 12 , 14 ].…”

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Phantom Eye Syndrome: A Review of the Literature

Andreotti

Goiato

Pellizzer

et al. 2014

The Scientific World Journal

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The purpose of this literature review was to describe the main features of phantom eye syndrome in relation to their possible causes, symptoms, treatments, and influence of eye amputation on quality of life of anophthalmic patients. For this, a bibliographical research was performed in Pubmed database using the following terms: “eye amputation,” “eye trauma,” “phantom eye syndrome,” “phantom pain,” and “quality of life,” associated or not. Thirteen studies were selected, besides some relevant references contained in the selected manuscripts and other studies hallowed in the literature. Thus, 56 articles were included in this review. The phantom eye syndrome is defined as any sensation reported by the patient with anophthalmia, originated anophthalmic cavity. In phantom eye syndrome, at least one of these three symptoms has to be present: phantom vision, phantom pain, and phantom sensations. This syndrome has a direct influence on the quality of life of the patients, and psychological support is recommended before and after the amputation of the eyeball as well as aid in the treatment of the syndrome. Therefore, it is suggested that, for more effective treatment of phantom eye syndrome, drug therapy should be associated with psychological approach.

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Enucleation and development of cluster headache: a retrospective study

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Health-Related Quality of Life After Surgical Removal of an Eye

Health-Related Quality of Life After Surgical Removal of an Eye

Head trauma and cluster headache

Phantom Eye Syndrome: A Review of the Literature

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