Neurostimulation for Intractable Chronic Pain [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2019 The field of neuromodulation has seen unprecedented growth over the course of the last decade with novel waveforms, hardware advancements, and novel chronic pain indications.
Timothy R. Deer +3 more
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Anterior cingulotomy for intractable pain
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management, 2016 Conservative therapy is often the first-line treatment for many symptoms of various disease processes, including pain. Nevertheless, if pharmacological or medical management fails for those patients with severe and chronic pain, a surgical strategy may ...
Nitin Agarwal +2 more
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Neuromodulation for Intractable Pain [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2020 Over 7% of the Western population suffer from intractable pain and despite pharmacotherapy, many patients’ pain is refractory [...]
Alexander L. Green, Tipu Z. Aziz
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Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block with Botulinum Toxin Type A for Intractable Neuropathic Pain
Toxins, 2016 Neuropathic pain includes postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN), and trigeminal neuralgia, and so on. Although various drugs have been tried to treat neuropathic pain, the effectiveness of the drugs sometimes may be limited for ...
Young Eun Moon +4 more
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Intracerebroventricular opioids for intractable pain. [PDF]
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2012 When pain is refractory to systemic opioid and non‐opioid analgesic therapy and palliative chemoradiation or ablative or stimulant neurosurgical procedures are not possible, palliative treatment becomes limited, particularly if the patient wishes to be at home at the end of life.
R. Raffa, J. Pergolizzi
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Cervical Cordotomy in Terminal Cancer: Pain Relieving in Oncological Treatment
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2021 Cordotomy consists in the discontinuation of the lateral spinothalamic tract (LST) in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, which aims to reduce the transference of nociceptive information in the dorsal horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord
Maria Clara Cardoso Seba +5 more
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Dorsal root ganglion stimulation combined with spinal cord stimulation for effective treatment of postherpetic neuralgia - A case report - [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2021 Background Although spinal cord stimulation (SCS) can be a treatment option for intractable postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), obtaining proper stimulation at the thoracic dermatome is difficult.
Seung Wan Hong +4 more
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Botulinum toxin A for refractory neuropathic pain in supraorbital postherpetic neuralgia
Indian Journal of Pain, 2023 This case series assesses the benefits of intracutaneous injection of botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) for the treatment of intractable pain of supraorbital postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) not responding to oral drug therapy.
Anupriya Saxena +2 more
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Transcutaneous neurostimulatory treatment for peripheral polyneuropathy induced by hypereosinophilic syndrome - A case report - [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2021 Background Hypereosinophilic syndrome is a rare disease that increases the number of circulating eosinophils in the body. It has many complications, including peripheral polyneuropathy.
Kihyug Kwon +3 more
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Strategic multimodal non‐invasive assessment of cardiac performance in patients with heart failure
ESC Heart Failure, 2023 Aims Although various non‐invasive cardiac examinations are known to be predictive of long‐term outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF), combining them properly would provide synergism.
Mi‐Jeong Kim +8 more
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