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Questions from patients about analgesic pharmacotherapy and responses from authors are presented to help educate patients and make them more effective self-advocates. The topic addressed in this issue is postherpetic neuralgia, symptoms, risk factors, and treatment.
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Postherpetic pain persisting one month or longer occurs in 9% to 14% of patients with herpes zoster, diminishing with time. The incidence and duration are directly related to age. The pathologic features have been described but the pathogenesis of postherpetic neuralgia is unknown. Treatment remains difficult.
P N, Watson, R J, Evans
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The prognosis with postherpetic neuralgia
Pain, 1991One hundred and fifty-six patients with moderate to severe postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) were followed for up to 11 years. Nearly half of all patients were doing well at the final assessment (median 2 years) and more than half of these were on no therapy at this time.
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CHRONIC POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956• The course of postherpetic neuralgia was studied in 35 patients, some of whom had suffered severely for more than three years. All of the patients were over 40 years of age. The sexes were almost equally affected. The thoracic nerves were involved most frequently, and the trigeminal nerves next. Five patients with trigeminal involvement were treated
L S, VAN BLARICOM, G, HORRAX
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