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Genomics and Pain Research in Sickle Cell Disease: An Explanation of Heterogeneity?

International Scholarly Research Notices, Volume 2011, Issue 1, 2011., 2011
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic illness, and the major complication, pain, results in complex multidimensional problems that affect an individual′s ability to maintain adequate quality of life in multiple areas. Chronic SCD pain is inadequately treated, because it is not well understood, and the degree of chronic pain, clinical presentation, and
Maxine Adegbola, S. McClement, R. Northway   +2 more
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Treatment of Acute Sciatica [PDF]

, 2007
In patients with acute sciatica, bed rest and advice to stay active have similar outcomes on their functional status and perceived improvement. (Strength of Recommendation [SOR]: A) Spinal manipulation increases improvement compared with placebo; also ...
Dhillon, Baldev Singh, Markova, Tsveti, Martin, Sandra I.   +2 more
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A Prospective, Single-Center, Single-Blind, Randomized, Confirmatory, Controlled Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of PF-72 Combined with 0.75% Ropivacaine Hydrochloride in Patients Undergoing Single-Level Lumbar Discectomy

International Journal of Pain
Background : We conducted this study to assess the efficacy and safety of PF-72 (TGel Bio Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea) combined with 0.75% ropivacaine hydrochloride in relieving the postoperative pain in patients undergoing single-level lumbar discectomy ...
Beom Seok Yoo, Cheol Wung Park, Dong Ah Shin, Jung-Hoon Park, Chai-Min Yoo, Woo-Joo Lee, Jae-Eon Yoon, Tae-Yong An, Byung-Kwan Kim, Jin-Seong Lee   +9 more
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Assessing the potential role of ChatGPT in spine surgery research

Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, Volume 11, Issue 3, July 2024.
Abstract Purpose Since its release in November 2022, Chat Generative Pre‐Trained Transformer 3.5 (ChatGPT), a complex machine learning model, has garnered more than 100 million users worldwide. The aim of this study is to determine how well ChatGPT can generate novel systematic review ideas on topics within spine surgery. Methods ChatGPT was instructed
Isabel Herzog, Dhruv Mendiratta, Ashok Para, Ari Berg, Neil Kaushal, Michael Vives   +5 more
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The Disparagement of Pain: Social Influences on Medical Thinking

Pain Research and Management, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 259-270, 2000., 2000
Patients with pain often feel that their suffering is taken lightly, dismissed or denied. Before the introduction of anesthesia, pain was regarded as an awful affliction. This view diminished somewhat once anesthesia became available, although it still holds true for some forms of pain, eg, pain associated with terminal cancer. Pain was then treated as
Harold Merskey, Robert W Teasell
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical and Radiological Outcomes of Cervical Disc Arthroplasty in Patients with Modic Change

Orthopaedic Surgery, Volume 16, Issue 7, Page 1562-1570, July 2024.
A patient with type 3 Modic changes on C6 vertebrae underwent a single level cervical disc arthroplasty. The patient with Modic changes was observed with severe heterotopic ossification. Objective Modic change (MC) is defined as abnormalities observed in the intervertebral disc subchondral and adjacent vertebral endplate subchondral bone changes.
Yifei Deng, Xiaqing Sheng, Beiyu Wang, Ying Hong, Xing Rong, Chen Ding, Hao Liu   +6 more
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Comparison between Tubular Discectomy and Open Microdiscectomy surgery for Symptomatic Lumbar Disk Herniation [PDF]

, 2023
Objectives: There are many different minimally invasive procedures that can be used to treat lumbar disc herniation. In the management of lumbar disc herniation, Open microdiscectomy MD is the gold standard and is used as a benchmark for comparison with
Dr Anshul Galav, Dr Hanuman prasad prajapati, Dr Mohd Faheem, Dr Pankhudi Gupta, Dr Sajag Kumar Gupta   +4 more
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Surgical Site Infection: a Review [PDF]

, 2010
Infection of the spine may occur spontaneously, by direct hematogenous or contiguous spread from an area of infection, or secondarily to an inciting event such as trauma or spine operation.
Awe, Olatilewa, Harrop, James
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Spinal Cord Tethering, a Very Rare Cause of Cauda Equina Syndrome after Lumbar Disk Surgery: A Case Report

Prague Medical Report, 2020
Tethered cord syndrome (TCS) may rarely remain asymptomatic until degenerative or nondegenerative lumbar diseases superimpose in adulthood and expose the hidden anomaly.
Alireza Tabibkhooei, Farid Kazemi, Foad Kazemi, Morteza Taheri   +3 more
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Associations between future health expectations and patient satisfaction after lumbar spine surgery: a longitudinal observational study of 9929 lumbar spine surgery procedures

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective This study aimed to investigate the associations between general health expectations and patient satisfaction with treatment for the two common spine surgery procedures diskectomy for lumbar disk herniation (LDH) and decompression for lumbar ...
Jan Karlsson, Anders Joelson, Freyr Gauti Sigmundsson, Lilla Szigethy, Peter Wildeman   +4 more
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