1.
Pain
; 23(4): 381-386, 1985 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3878959
RESUMO
The treatment of 77 consecutive cases of post-herpetic neuralgia is reviewed. Stellate blockade proved helpful in 75% of patients with pain of less than 1 year's duration; 40% became virtually pain free. Drug treatment and electrical counterirritation methods gave improvement in 60% of cases but only 15% became pain free. Stellate block carried out after 1 year of pain proved helpful in only 44% of patients, and only 22% became pain free. Stellate blockade carried out within 1 year of the onset of symptoms would appear to be one of the treatments of choice for post-herpetic neuralgia. It would be of interest to see the results of a controlled randomised trial.
Assuntos
Analgésicos/uso terapêutico , Bloqueio Nervoso Autônomo , Terapia por Estimulação Elétrica , Herpes Zoster/complicações , Neuralgia/terapia , Gânglio Estrelado/efeitos dos fármacos , Adulto , Idoso , Amitriptilina/uso terapêutico , Carbamazepina/uso terapêutico , Terapia Combinada , Quimioterapia Combinada , Flufenazina/uso terapêutico , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neuralgia/tratamento farmacológico , Neuralgia/etiologia
2.
Anaesthesia
; 40(9): 875-8, 1985 Sep.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-4051152