Patients with idiopathic blepharospasm, either isolated or associated with oromandibular dystonia, are more likely to develop parkinsonian symptoms, researchers report.
“What we have verified here is that idiopathic blepharospasm may be sign of the eventual development of Parkinson’s disease,” Emilia Gatto, M.D., presenter, lead researcher and professor of medicine at University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, told Doctor’s Guide.
The research was presented November 15 at the Movement Disorders Society’s (MDS) 7th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Prior research suggests that a lesion in the substantia nigra might lead to blepharospasm in predisposed patients. If this were the case, some of these patients would eventually develop parkinsonian symptoms.
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