Pain General
Jan 30, 2020
Both the evaluation of disease activity and the assessment of the impact of the disease on patients' lives are subjects of intense research at present in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We aimed to test th...
Jan 30, 2020
To evaluate the performance of the 2016 ACR-EULAR classification Sjögren's syndrome (SS) criteria for classifying patients with secondary SS.We randomly selected 300 patients with systemic lupus eryt...
Jan 30, 2020
MicroRNAs have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their syntheses are modulated by glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β). Therefore, we hypothesised that the GSK-3β...
Jan 30, 2020
The aim of this study is to a) investigate the headache features and level of headache severity, chronicity, and disability found within a chiropractic patient population and b) to ascertain if patien...
Jan 30, 2020
The diagnostic criteria of menstrual migraine (MM), migraine related to menstruation and pure menstrual migraine, are placed in the appendix of the International Classification of Headache Disorders a...
Jan 30, 2020
A growing body of evidence has implicated the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptors in migraine pathophysiology. With the recent approval of monoclonal antibodies targeting CGRP or the CGRP...
Jan 30, 2020
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of migrepam in the treatment of migraine attacks.Sixty patients with episodic migraine with and without aura, aged between 18 and 65 years, were included in the ran...
Jan 30, 2020
To investigate whether intravenously infused provokes migraine aura and migraine headache in migraine patients with aura.Migraine with aura has been associated with endothelial dysfunction and increas...
Jan 30, 2020
Skeletal muscle disorders are dramatically increasing with human aging with enormous sanitary costs and impact on the quality of life. Preventive and therapeutic tools to limit onset and progression o...
Jan 30, 2020
The chronic pain disorder, fibromyalgia, is associated with sleep disturbance, typically sleep maintenance. No studies have evaluated the effect of sleep medication on pain sensitivity in this populat...
Jan 30, 2020
Primary pulmonary MALT (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue) lymphoma is a rare entity that imposes a rigorous and demanding diagnostic work-up.We present the case of a 74-year-old female non-smoker wit...
Jan 30, 2020
To reevaluate the frequency and pattern of complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) use in patients with fibromyalgia (FM).Consecutive patients with FM who were referred to the Mayo Clinic fibromy...
Jan 30, 2020
Abatacept may exert its clinical effect on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by suppressing anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody production. This study was undertaken to test this hypothesis by ex...
Jan 30, 2020
Post-stroke Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is characterized by swelling, pain and changes in the skin that appear on the affected wrist and hand. In this retrospective study, we analyzed the re...
Jan 30, 2020
The use of long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain remains common, yet data on long-term outcomes, especially after dose escalation, are sparse. This study examined potential benefits and harms asso...
Jan 30, 2020
Non-invasive measures of neuroinflammatory processes in humans could substantially aid diagnosis and therapeutic development for many disorders, including chronic pain. Several proton Magnetic Resonan...
Jan 27, 2020
Knowledge of factors involved in the associations between pain, common mental disorders and future work incapacity is still scarce. The aim of this study was to examine the overlap between genetic and...
Jan 27, 2020
Mechanical allodynia is a cardinal sign of several inflammatory pain disorders where Nerve Growth Factor, a prototypic neurotrophin, plays a crucial role by binding to TrkA receptors. Here, we took th...
Jan 27, 2020
Neck pain and headache are two of the most common complications of whiplash injury. Therefore, we performed a systematic literature search on PubMed and Embase for publications reporting on the preval...
Jan 27, 2020
Sodium channel Nav1.7, encoded by the SCN9A gene, is a well validated target that plays a key role in controlling pain sensation. Loss-of-function mutations of Nav1.7 can cause a syndrome of profound ...