Pain General
Mar 02, 2020
A 69-year-old woman had been undergoing treatment with methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis for 9 years. Because fever and right hypochondriac pain continued, she visited the nearby hospital. The en...
Mar 02, 2020
We developed and validated a nomogram to predict coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in northern China. We analyzed a cohort of RA patients admitted to the Departme...
Mar 02, 2020
According to the Chinese medicine, magnoflorine exerted significant anti-inflammatory effects and potentially promoted synthesis of proteoglycans in chondrocytes to reverse the progression of rheumato...
Feb 28, 2020
Medication overuse headache may be associated with widespread alterations along the thalamocortical pathway, a pathway involved in pain perception and disease progression. This study addressed whether...
Feb 28, 2020
The incidences of dystonic reactions to metoclopramide and prochlorperazine have not been well characterized in children.Medical record data were reviewed for patients at a tertiary care pediatric hos...
Feb 28, 2020
To investigate clinical characteristics and treatment patterns in persistent post-traumatic headache attributed to mild traumatic brain injury.A total of 100 individuals with persistent post-traumatic...
Feb 28, 2020
Migraine and asthma are two frequent, disabling, chronic disorders with a major impact on patient well-being. The objectives of this study were to compare subjective well-being between patients with s...
Feb 28, 2020
To study the compliance of neurologists and headache specialists to chronic headache and chronic migraine (CM) diagnosis and treatment guidelines.The survey included 634 neurologists from all regions ...
Feb 28, 2020
As JIA-associated uveitis (JIAU) is asymptomatic in the majority of patients, ophthalmologic screening examinations are recommended, depending on the risk constellation for uveitis development. This s...
Feb 28, 2020
Limited information on the prevalence and risk factors for chronic pain is available for developing countries. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of chronic pain, and the association between th...
Feb 28, 2020
Whether, how, and which cognitive factors modulate the development of secondary hypersensitivity/hyperalgesia following central sensitization is not fully understood. Here we tested, in three subseque...
Feb 28, 2020
Distorted representations of the body and peripersonal space are common in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), and might modulate its symptoms (e.g. asymmetric limb temperature). In pain-free peopl...
Feb 28, 2020
To compare remission status at completion of chemotherapy for multiple myeloma (MM) with changes in total diffusion volume (tDV) calculated from whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI) and fat ...
Feb 28, 2020
The dimeric artesunate phospholipid conjugate (Di-ART-GPC) is a novel amphipathic artemisinin derivative, which can be assembled into liposomes. Di-ART-GPC liposomes were prepared and evaluated as pot...
Feb 28, 2020
Viscosupplementation has been used for decades to treat mild to moderate osteoarthritis, yet it is unknown if the lubricating function of different pathological synovial fluids (SF) vary, or if they r...
Feb 28, 2020
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by hyperplasia of the synovial membrane along with persistent inflammation of joints. Earlier studies suggest the crucial role...
Feb 28, 2020
BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a rheumatic disease characterized by diffuse body pain and decreased muscle function. The aim of the present study was to compare the biological rhythms of pa...
Feb 28, 2020
Fibromyalgia (FM) diagnosis follows the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria, based on clinical evaluation and written questionnaires without any objective diagnostic tool. The lack of spec...
Feb 28, 2020
The aim of this study was to compare the handgrip strength (HGs), assessed with a cylindrical-shape grip device, of fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) patients with healthy subjects and to demonstrate the rel...
Feb 28, 2020
Sleep disturbances such as nonrestorative sleep and nighttime awakenings play a crucial role in fibromyalgia (FMS). Pain and sleep disturbances show a bidirectional relationship which affect outcomes ...