Pain General
Dec 14, 2020
Adults with mood and anxiety disorders have an increased likelihood of being prescribed opioids. The influence of other mental disorders, such as psychotic and attention disorders, on opioid prescribi...
Dec 14, 2020
BACKGROUND Little is known regarding the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of emergency department (ED) patients with untreated opioid use disorder (OUD) and the relationship of those char...
Dec 14, 2020
Migraine attacks notably impact people's daily lives, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and ability to work. Triptans are widely used as acute medication for a migraine attack but are ineffectiv...
Dec 14, 2020
This study was aimed at assessing the possible effect of melatonin concentration on migraine. The serum concentration profile of melatonin in patients with diagnosed episodic migraine in the intericta...
Dec 14, 2020
To identify migraine features present in a cohort of patients with recurrent benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).Patients presenting with recurrent BPPV were surveyed. Recurrent BPPV was defin...
Dec 14, 2020
This study aimed to compare the demographic characteristics, disease activity, functional status, and quality of life between patients with axial spondyloarthritis and fibromyalgia and patients with a...
Dec 14, 2020
: Fibromyalgia represents the most prevalent of the group of conditions that are known as central sensitivity syndromes. Approximately 2-5% of the adult population in the United States is affected by ...
Dec 14, 2020
Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is a tick-borne, zoonosis of adults and children caused by genospecies of the sensu lato complex. The ailment, widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, continues...
Dec 14, 2020
Thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) remains one of the most difficult-to-treat disorders for spine surgeons. In Japan, approximately 75% of patient...
Dec 14, 2020
The Dutch Regional Euthanasia Review Committees (RTEs) reviewed and reported an increasing number of cases of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) requested by older people with multiple ge...
Dec 14, 2020
Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability. However, the processes contributing to disability are not well understood. Therefore, this study 1) empirically derived LBP subgroups and 2) valid...
Dec 14, 2020
Neurosurgical treatments for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) can provide long-lasting pain relief, however, some patients fail to respond and undergo multiple, repeat procedures. Surgical outcomes can vary ...
Dec 14, 2020
In 2017, Michigan passed new legislation designed to reduce opioid abuse. This study evaluated the impact of these new restrictive laws on preoperative narcotic use, short-term outcomes, and readmissi...
Dec 14, 2020
The objective of this study was to present the results of a consecutive series of 120 cases treated with spinal laser interstitial thermal therapy (sLITT) to manage epidural spinal cord compression (E...
Dec 14, 2020
Xylopic acid (XA), a diterpene kaurene and the major active ingredient of the African spice Xylopia aethiopica (Annonaceae), is reported to possess anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. Here, we...
Dec 14, 2020
Iguratimod, a small molecular drug, has been proven to have effective bone protection for treatment of patients with bone loss-related diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the exact b...
Dec 14, 2020
Interleukin (IL)-35 is the newest member of the IL-12 family. It is expressed in many immune cells and has been recognized as a novel inflammatory cytokine that may have bifunctional properties. Recen...
Dec 10, 2020
Opioids are administered during the intraoperative and postoperative periods in pediatric adenotonsillectomy and tonsillectomy. Non-opioid analgesics are often used as an analgesic during pediatric ad...
Dec 10, 2020
Opioid misuse (OM) is a major health problem in the United States, and can lead to addiction and fatal overdose. We sought to employ natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to categoriz...
Dec 10, 2020
To explore the possible concurrent brain functional and structural alterations in patients with migraine without aura (MwoA) patients compared to healthy subjects (HS).Seventy-two MwoA patients and fo...