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A systematic review of the association between fibromyalgia and functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Dec 24, 2020

Fibromyalgia and functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are common conditions presenting in clinical settings and are more prevalent in women. While the ...

A New Posterior Extensor Attachment-Point Reconstruction Technique for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Involving C2 Segment: Clinical Outcome and Safety.

Dec 24, 2020

 Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a common degenerative disease that mainly occurs in elder patients, leading to different degrees of neurological dysfunction. Spinal cord involvement is mai...

Cellular and behavioral basis of cannabinioid and opioid interactions: Implications for opioid dependence and withdrawal.

Dec 24, 2020

The brain's endogenous opioid and endocannabinoid systems are neuromodulatory of synaptic transmission, and play key roles in pain, memory, reward, and addiction. Recent clinical and pre-clinical evid...

Invasive Fusariosis in Nonneutropenic Patients, Spain, 2000-2015.

Dec 24, 2020

Invasive fusariosis (IF) is associated with severe neutropenia in patients with concurrent hematologic conditions. We conducted a retrospective observational study to characterize the epidemiology of ...

Rheumatological Diseases in Denim Sandblasters with Silicosis: What Should Pulmonologists Look for?

Dec 24, 2020

Silica exposure is not only the cause of silicosis, also associated rheumatological diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and systemic sclerosis (SSc). This repo...

Impact of Obesity on Complication Rates, Clinical Outcomes, and Quality of Life after Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion.

Dec 24, 2020

 Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in obese patients remains a surgical challenge. We aimed to compare patient-reported outcomes and complication rates between obese and nonobese patients who were...

When symptoms become side effects: Development of the side effect attribution scale (SEAS).

Dec 24, 2020

Symptom misattribution is a central process in the nocebo effect but it is not accurately assessed in current side effect measures. We have developed a new measure, the Side Effect Attribution Scale (...

Development and validation of analytical method for identification of new psychoactive substances using linear retention indexes and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Dec 21, 2020

New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are quickly developing to evade legislation, posing unprecedented challenges to public health and law enforcement authorities around the world. The aim of this work w...

Unilateral transcranial photobiomodulation for opioid addiction in a clinical practice: A clinical overview and case series.

Dec 21, 2020

Opioid Use Disorders (OUD) cause great disfunction and pain to individuals, families, and societies. There are few good treatments. This paper presents a novel, easily applied, painless, therapy that ...

Implementing harm reduction in non-urban communities affected by opioids and polysubstance use: A qualitative study exploring challenges and mitigating strategies.

Dec 21, 2020

Harm reduction services, which typically provide overdose education and prevention with distribution of naloxone and other supplies related to safer drug use, help reduce opioid-related overdose and i...

Erenumab in the prevention of high-frequency episodic and chronic migraine: Erenumab in Real Life in Italy (EARLY), the first Italian multicenter, prospective real-life study.

Dec 21, 2020

To assess the effectiveness, safety, and tolerability of erenumab in a real-life migraine population, while trying to identify responsiveness predictors.Erenumab is a fully human Ig-2 monoclonal antib...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Chronic Pain Conditions in Men: A Twin Study.

Dec 21, 2020

Abstract.Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is highly comorbid with chronic pain conditions that often co-occur such as migraine headaches, temporomandibular disorder, irritable bowel syndrome, fibr...

A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression evaluating the adverse reactions to erenumab in the preventive treatment of migraine.

Dec 21, 2020

: Erenumab has recently been approved as a pharmacological treatment for the prevention of migraine. However, the incidence estimates of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) were not consistent among studies...

Incisional hernia after extreme lateral interbody fusion on the lumbar spine: A case report.

Dec 21, 2020

Extreme lateral interbody fusion is a minimally invasive lateral transpsoas approach for spine surgery. We herein report a case of an incisional hernia after an extreme lateral interbody fusion on the...

Understanding the role of tissue-specific decellularized spinal cord matrix hydrogel for neural stem/progenitor cell microenvironment reconstruction and spinal cord injury.

Dec 21, 2020

The repair of spinal cord injury (SCI) highly relies on microenvironment remodeling and facilitating the recruitment and neuronal differentiation of endogenous stem/progenitor cells. Decellularized ti...

Fear avoidance beliefs are associated with reduced lumbar spine flexion during object lifting in pain-free adults.

Dec 21, 2020

There is a long-held belief that physical activities such as lifting with a flexed spine is generally harmful for the back and can cause low back pain (LBP), potentially reinforcing fear avoidance bel...

Two independent mouse lines carrying the Nav1.7-I228M gain-of-function variant display DRG neuron hyperexcitability but a minimal pain phenotype.

Dec 21, 2020

Small-fiber neuropathy (SFN), characterized by distal unmyelinated/thinly-myelinated fiber loss, produces a combination of sensory dysfunction and neuropathic pain. Gain-of-function variants in the so...

Revisiting patient-related barriers to cancer pain management in the context of the US opioid crisis.

Dec 21, 2020

Patient fear of addiction is a well-documented barrier to the use of analgesic medications for cancer pain control. Over the past 2 decades in the US, an "opioid crisis" has arisen, accompanied by ris...

Naturalistic 6-month antidepressants follow-up in patients with fibromyalgia: impact on somatic and mood spectrum symptoms.

Dec 21, 2020

Literature shows high rates of comorbidity between fibromyalgia (FM) and mood disorders, especially major depressive disorder (MMD), reported in more than half of the cases. Consistently, patients wit...

Adult Autism Subthreshold spectrum correlates to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder spectrum in patients with fibromyalgia.

Dec 21, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is an increasingly prevalent disorder that usually shows a chronic course and a disappointing therapeutic response in which psychiatric features seem to play a relevant role. Most re...

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