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Shingrix: Educating Patients on the New Shingles Vaccine [PDF]

, 2018
Herpes zoster (shingles) is a viral infection that results in a painful rash and has a myriad of long-term complications, including post-herpetic neuralgia- chronic pain that does not resolved despite resolution of the rash.
Jost, Sarah Natasha
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A six year retrospective review of occipital nerve stimulation practice--controversies and challenges of an emerging technique for treating refractory headache syndromes [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: A retrospective review of patients treated with Occipital Nerve Stimulation (ONS) at two large tertiary referral centres has been audited in order to optimise future treatment pathways. METHODS: Patient's medical records were retrospectively
Al Kaisy, Adnan, Arcioni, Roberto, Bandikatla, Vijay, Carson, Eleanor, Lambru, Giorgio, Martelletti, Paolo, Negro, Andrea, Palmisani, Stefano, Smith, Tom   +8 more
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Clinical effect and safety of pulsed radiofrequency treatment for pudendal neuralgia: a prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial

Journal of Pain Research, 2018
Background Pudendal neuralgia is an intractable pain related to the pudendal nerve. The clinical effect and safety evaluation of pudendal neuralgia were investigated by pulse radiofrequency (PRF) treatment of pudendal nerve.
Hongwei Fang, Jinyuan Zhang, Yu Yang, Le Ye, Xiangrui Wang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Critical Medical Ethics as an Approach to the Debate About Assisted Suicide by the Example of Germany

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent literature has seen a growing endorsement of the so‐called autonomy‐only approach to assisted dying, which rejects suffering as a necessary criterion for access. Proponents argue that this model is most suitable to safeguard individuals against value‐based judgments of healthcare professionals about whether their lives are still worth ...
Meike Gerber
wiley   +1 more source

Correlation between nerve atrophy, brain grey matter volume and pain severity in patients with primary trigeminal neuralgia

Cephalalgia, 2018
Background Recent neuroimaging studies have reported grey matter alterations in primary trigeminal neuralgia patients. However, few studies have focused on quantitative measurements of trigeminal nerves and the interaction between trigeminal nerve volume
Y. Wang, Qian Yang, Dong-Yuan Cao, D. Seminowicz, B. Remeniuk, Lin Gao, Ming Zhang   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genital Herpes Zoster in an Immunocompetent Adult: A Rare Presentation

JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Sunil Jaiswal, Shraddha Uprety, Pratichya Thapa, Aditi Joshi, Prakriti Lamichhane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel approaches for drug development against chronic primary pain: A systematic review

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic primary pain (CPP) persisting for more than 3 months, associated with significant emotional distress without any known underlying cause, is an unmet medical need. Traditional or adjuvant analgesics do not provide satisfactory pain relief for a great proportion of these patients.
Valéria Tékus, Éva Borbély, Andreas Goebel, Ralf Baron, Zsófia Hajna, Zsuzsanna Helyes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civinini bar : incidence in North Indians and its clinical relevance

National Journal of Clinical Anatomy, 2013
Background and aim: Ossified pterygospinous ligament is a major cause of the entrapment of the Ungual nerve or a branch of the mandibular nerve and may cause mandibular neuralgia. It can also constitute an obstacle for the mandibular nerve block which is
Rakesh Kumar Verma, Archana Rani, Anita Rani, Jyoti Chopra, Arvind Kumar Pankaj, Navneet Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Diwan   +6 more
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Epigenetic mechanisms and therapeutic innovations in chronic pain‐associated neuropsychiatric co‐morbidities

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic pain, marked by nociceptive sensitization and maladaptive neuroplasticity, affects 30% of the global population with escalating socioeconomic burdens. Epidemiological data show a 2‐3‐fold increase in neuropsychiatric co‐morbidities among individuals with chronic pain, where epigenetic dysregulation serves as a key mechanism linking ...
Kai Zhang, Sijia Zhu, Na Xing, Zhen Zhou, Jiayi Chen, Tianen Si, Mingrui Li, Lin Jia, Yousef Rastegar‐Kashkooli, Tom J. Wang, Wei Zhu, Jing Li, Chao Jiang, Junmin Wang, Moxin Wu, Xiaoping Yin, Weidong Zang, Jian Wang, Songxue Su   +18 more
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Assessing the painful, uninflamed eye in primary care [PDF]

, 2015
We acknowledge the important contributions of Professor Amada J Lee, University of Aberdeen, Division of Statistics, for assistance with analysing the data from the patient survey.
Dick, Andrew, Forrester, John V., Kuffova, Lucia   +2 more
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