El-Tallawy Hamdy N, Farghaly Wafaa M, Rageh Tarek A, Shehata Ghaydaa A, Abdel Hakeem M Nabil, Badry Reda, Kandil Mahmoud R
Department of Neurology, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2013 Sep;115(9):1792-4. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2013.04.014. Epub 2013 May 18.
Trigeminal neuralgia or tic douloureux is sometimes described as the most excruciating pain known to humanity.
To estimate the prevalence of trigeminal neuralgia among the population of Al-Quseir city.
This study forms a part of door to door survey of major neurological disorders in Al-Quseir city, Red sea governorate, Egypt. The total population (33,285 persons) were screened through door to door (every door) by three specialists of Neurology and fifteen female social workers. Then, positive cases were subjected to clinical and neurological examination by other three staff members of neurology. Cases were identified as suffering from trigeminal neuralgia according to the diagnostic criteria of the International headache society (IHS).
We identified 4 female patients out of 13,541 persons (aged 30 years and more) suffering from trigeminal neuralgia with age specific prevalence rate of 29.5/100,000. Co-morbid depression and hypertension were observed among the affected persons.
三叉神经痛或痛性抽搐有时被描述为人类已知的最剧烈的疼痛。
评估库赛尔市人群中三叉神经痛的患病率。
本研究是对埃及红海省库赛尔市主要神经系统疾病进行挨家挨户调查的一部分。由三位神经科专家和十五名女性社会工作者对总人口（33285人）进行逐户（每户）筛查。然后，由另外三名神经科工作人员对阳性病例进行临床和神经学检查。根据国际头痛协会（IHS）的诊断标准确定病例患有三叉神经痛。
在13541名年龄30岁及以上的人群中，我们确定了4名患有三叉神经痛的女性患者，年龄特异性患病率为29.5/100000。在受影响的人群中观察到合并抑郁症和高血压。
