Continuous Intra-Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring Improves the Efficiency of Percutaneous Balloon Compression of the Trigeminal Ganglion for Trigeminal Neuralgia

Table 2

Summary of the immediate effectiveness and postoperative complications.

	IICBP (n = 55)	CIABP (n = 48)	value
Follow-up time (months)	12 (9, 15)	12 (9, 15)	0.223
Postoperative immediate pain relief (n)	49	47	0.167
Postoperative BNI pian score (n)			0.035
I	41	42
II	8	5
III	0	1
IV	5	0
V	1	0
Complications (n)
Facial numbness	28	23	0.762
Hypoesthesia	17	15	0.970
Masseter weakness	4	3	1.000
Herpes	3	4	0.852
BNI facial numbness score (n)			0.584
I	27	25
II	17	18
III	9	4
IV	2	1