Treatment of Recurrent Painful Ophthalmoplegic Neuropathy: A Case Where Pregabalin Was Successfully Employed

Table 2

Case reports.

Author	Patient age/ gender	Pain description	Nerve palsy	Treatment	Time to fully recovery
Kobayashi et al. 2017 [1]	48-year-old /female	Unilateral; Throbbing; Photophobia Phonophobia	Incomplete III pair	Corticosteroids	5 days; Persistent Residual Mydriasis
Qureshi et al. 2017 [2]	53-year-old / female	Unilateral; Throbbing; Photophobia Phonophobia	Incomplete III pair	NSAIDs; Serotonin receptor agonist; Calcium channel blocker	NR
Huang et al. 2017 [3]	26-year-old / female	Unilateral	Incomplete III pair	Corticosteroids Topiramate	6 weeks
Tripathi et al. 2017 [4]	36-year old / female	Unilateral; Throbbing; Photophobia	VI pair	Gabapentin; Topiramate	2 months
Okura et al. 2017 [5]	12-year-old / male	Unilateral	Incomplete III pair	Corticosteroids	8 weeks
Takizawa et al. 2016 [6]	42-year-old / female	Unilateral; Throbbing	Incomplete III pair	NR	NR
Ghosh 2015 [7]	5-year-old / male	Unilateral	Incomplete III pair	Corticosteroids; Immunoglobulin	3 weeks
Ramakrishnan et al. 2015 [8]	30-year-old / female	Unilateral; Photophobia Phonophobia	Incomplete III pair	Valproate Corticosteroids	1 month
Wang et al. 2014 [9]	63-year-old / male	Unilateral; Pressure-like; Phonophobia	Incomplete III pair	Valproate; Flunarizine	NR
Shetty et al. 2013 [10]	26-year-old / female	Unilateral; Throbbing	Incomplete III pair	NSAIDs Propranolol	2 weeks

NR: not reported; NSAIDs: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.