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- Title
All-in-One Spinal Cord Stimulation in Lymphoproliferative Diseases.
- Authors
Sica, Antonello; Casale, Beniamino; Sagnelli, Caterina; Di Dato, Maria Teresa; Buonavolontà, Pietro; Salzano, Anna Maria; Sagnelli, Evangelista; Famiglietti, Vincenzo; Saracco, Elisabetta; Tammaro, Dario; Papa, Alfonso
- Abstract
Even patients with lymphoproliferative diseases may develop a persistent chronic pain not responsive to usual treatments due to changes in antibody production and to some treatments like radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and the administration of monoclonal antibodies, which further impair the immune defense and induce chronic inflammatory phenomena acting as a substrate for a persistent chronic pain. Five patients with indolent lymphoproliferative diseases were treated for severe pain nonresponsive to other pain reliever treatments with SCS applied with an All-in-One Shot (OS) procedure. For all patients, the estimated survival time was of 5 years or more. All patients showed a significant reduction of the intensity of pain: the mean Numerical Rating Scale was 7.4 before treatment and 2.2 after. No patient developed adverse events. Supported by the data of this study, we believe that the habit to deprive patients with an indolent form of lymphoproliferative diseases of the possibility to reduce the intensity of chronic pain by SCS treatment is extremely reductive and frustrating.
- Subjects
SPINAL cord; PAIN management; SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry); CHRONIC pain; ANTIBODY formation; ORAL habits
- Publication
Frontiers in Neurology, 2020, Vol 11, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1664-2295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fneur.2020.550554