Clinical and electrophysiological findings of facial palsy in a case of hereditary gelsolin amyloidosis

We report a case of HGA presenting with bilateral facial palsy. A 70-year-old Japanese man presented with slowly progressive bilateral facial palsy and facial twitching, which had started in his 40s. His mother also had the same symptoms due to an unknown cause but rest of the family did not. He showed incomplete facial palsy with no frontal muscle movement and partial movement of the orbicularis oris and orbicularis oculi muscles.

Source: Auris, Nasus, Larynx - February 28, 2022 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Kaoru Yamakawa, Hironobu Nishijima, Akatsuki Kubota, Hiroya Naruse, Shintaro Baba, Yoko Fujimaki, Kenji Kondo, Tatsushi Toda, Tatsuya Yamasoba Tags: Case Report Source Type: research