Is there any specificity in gender, triggering factors and HRV according to the left and right lesions of hemifacial spasm? : A retrospective chart review

Abstract

Objectives: This study is designed to investigate the difference of gender, triggering factors and Heart rate variability(HRV) between left and right hemifacial spasm patients.Methods: Among hemifacial spasm patients who visited the Acupuncture and Moxibustion medicine clinic of Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital from January 1, 2017, to April 18, 2022, we reviewed the clinical records of subjects with right hemifacial spasm(n=55) and left hemifacial spasm(n=76). We investigated the difference of gender, triggering factors and HRV between left and right hemifacial spasm patients groups by student’s t-test, chi-square test and fisher's exact test using SPSS for windows(version 28.0.0.0.).Results: There was no difference in gender, triggering factors and HRV between left and right hemifacial spasm groups.Conclusion: According to this study, there were few specificity of lesions of left and right in hemifacial spasms.