PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ahangar, Alijan A.
AU  - Hosseini, Seydreza
AU  - Saghebi, Roshanak
TI  - Comparison of the efficacy of prednisolone versus prednisolone and acyclovir in the treatment of Bell’s palsy
DP  - 2006 Oct 01
TA  - Neurosciences Journal
PG  - 256--259
VI  - 11
IP  - 4
4099  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/11/4/256.short
4100  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/11/4/256.full
SO  - Neurosciences (Riyadh)2006 Oct 01; 11
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of 2 regimens of prednisolone versus prednisolone and acyclovir in the treatment of Bell’s palsy.METHODS: A retrospective study was performed on 496 Bell’s palsy patients attending Yahyanejad Hospital, Babol, Iran from 1995 to 2004, divided in 2 groups. The first group was treated with regimen one (oral prednisolone), and the second group was treated with regimen 2 (oral prednisolone plus oral acyclovir) for 2 weeks. All cases were followed for 6 months.RESULTS: Two hundred and forty-eight cases (108 males, 140 females) were treated with regimen one, and 248 cases (113 males, 135 females), were treated with regimen 2. Both groups had a mean age of 20-39 years. At the end of therapy, the recovery rate with regimen 2 was 95.6% (237 patients), whereas regimen one showed a recovery rate of 91.2% (226 patients) (p=0.047).CONCLUSION: This study showed acyclovir plus prednisolone to be more effective than prednisolone alone in the treatment of Bell’s palsy.