To analyze the changes of anxiety and depression in trigeminal neuralgia (TN) patients treated by C-arm guided percutaneous balloon compression (PBC).

From January 2018 to December 2020, 55 patients with TN who were treated by C-arm guided PBC in the functional neurosurgery team of the Neurosurgery Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University were selected. Zung’s self-rating depression scale (SDS) and self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) were used to score and compare the depression and anxiety of patients before treatment and 1 week after treatment. The clinical efficacy of C-arm guided PBC on TN was analyzed.

After PBC treatment, 55 patients with TN who received PBC treatment were included in this study. A total of 51 patients were cured, with a cure rate of 92.73%. Among them, 49 patients were cured, and 2 patients were cured, all of which occurred within 1 week. Two patients were markedly effective, 1 patient was effective. The effective rate was 98.18%. One patient (1.82%) showed no relief. Among the 55 patients before surgery, 17 patients were anxious (30.91%), and 20 patients were depressed (36.36%); 1 week after treatment, 7 patients were anxious (12.73%), 5 patients of depression (9.09%). Compared with before treatment, SAS and SDS scores were significantly reduced after treatment, the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05).

C-arm guided PBC has a significant clinical effect in the treatment of TN, and the patients’ anxiety and depression symptoms have been significantly improved.