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The Case of the Red Extremities

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2022
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with severe obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency department with burning pain, redness and swelling in his hands and feet, worsening for several weeks. Pertinent laboratory studies revealed polycythemia.
Kelechi Abarikwu, James S. Komara, Andrej Urumov   +2 more
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Cytomegalovirus infection associated with livedo reticularis, erythromelalgia, and superficial venous thrombosis [PDF]

JAAD Case Reports
Hasina Maredia, MD, Jenny Link, MD
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Clinical Challenges in Primary Erythromelalgia: A Real-Life Experience from a Single Center and a Diagnostic-Therapeutic Flow-Chart Proposal

Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, 2023
Introduction: Primary erythromelalgia (EM) is a rare clinical syndrome characterized by recurrent erythema, burning pain and warmth of the extremities. The symptoms greatly compromise the patients' quality of life leading to severe disability.
Andrea Michelerio, Carlo Tomasini, Eloisa Arbustini, Camilla Vassallo   +3 more
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Erythromelalgia Caused by Polycythemia Vera Combined with Primary Aldosteronism

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020
A 61-year-old woman with a history of primary aldosteronism caused by unilateral hyperplasia of the adrenal gland presented with a 2-week history of redness and severe pain in the right thumb and thenar regions.
Morika Suzuki, Takashi Watari
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Studying Erythromelalgia Using Doppler Flowmetry Perfusion Signals and Wavelet Analysis—An Exploratory Study

Biomedicines, 2023
Erythromelalgia (EM) is a rare disease, which is still poorly characterized. In the present paper, we compared the hand perfusion of one female EM patient, under challenges, with a healthy control group.
Luis Monteiro Rodrigues, Joana Caetano, Sergio Faloni Andrade, Clemente Rocha, José Delgado Alves, Hugo Alexandre Ferreira   +5 more
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Clinical Characterization of Pediatric Erythromelalgia: A Single-Center Case Series

Children, 2023
Erythromelalgia is a descriptive term for severe burning pain and erythema in the distal extremities relieved by cold and exacerbated by heat. Pediatric case series to date are relatively small.
Jenny Sun, Don Daniel Ocay, Meghan Halpin, Kimberly Lobo, Dafni F. T. Frohman, Carolina Donado, Catherine A. Brownstein, Casie A. Genetti, Anna Madden, Charles B. Berde   +9 more
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The para^bss1 Drosophila melanogaster as Model for Chronic Nociception: Insights Into Cannabidiol Analgesic Effects. [PDF]

Eur J Pain
ABSTRACT Background Chronic pain, which is often unrelated to ongoing injury, is poorly understood and difficult to treat. Genetic studies have identified voltage‐gated sodium (Nav) channels, particularly gain‐of‐function mutations such as L858F and R1150W in human NaV1.7, as involved in the development of chronic pain. Methods A chronic pain model was
Malta SM, Correia LIV, Marquez AS, Bernardes LMM, Howland JG, Mendes-Silva AP, Espíndola FS, Ueira-Vieira C.   +7 more
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Idiopathic Manifestation of Mitchell’s Syndrome (Erythromelalgia) in a Child

Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2016
Mitchell’s syndrome (erythromelalgia) — a rare disease in pediatric practice. The article describes a clinical case of erythromelalgia in a 10-year-old child.
I.H. Samoilenko, O.E. Chernyshova, V.V. Dolynskyi, O.H. Kоlnov   +3 more
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Pharmacogenetics of analgesic drugs [PDF]

, 2013
• Individual variability in pain perception and differences in the efficacy of analgesic drugs are complex phenomena and are partly genetically predetermined.
Branford, R, Cregg, R, Gubbay, A, Russo, G, Sato, H   +4 more
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Prostaglandin cyclooxygenase products but not thromboxane A2 are involved in the pathogenesis of ewthromelalgia in thrombocythaemia

Mediators of Inflammation, 1993
Fluid of artificial blisters from erythromelalgic skin areas in primary thrombocythaemia contained a high amount of prostaglandin-E-like activity. Dazoxiben did not alleviate the erythromelalgia in patients with primary thrombocythaemia despite complete ...
J. J. Michiels, F. J. Zijlstra
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