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Pain General

The Ambiguous Role of Caffeine in Migraine Headache: From Trigger to Treatment.

Aug 03, 2020

Migraine is a chronic disorder, and caffeine has been linked with migraine for many years, on the one hand as a trigger, and on the other hand as a cure. As most of the population, including migraineu...

Characteristics of Acute Nystagmus in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

Aug 03, 2020

Acute nystagmus (AN) is an uncommon neurologic sign in children presenting to pediatric emergency departments. We described the epidemiology, clinical features, and underlying causes of AN in a large ...

The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs): linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in the UK.

Aug 03, 2020

The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) measures difficulty in daily activities and social participation. With various versions involving a different number of items, we have linguistically and cultur...

Inhibition of acid ceramidase regulates MHC class II antigen presentation and suppression of autoimmune arthritis.

Aug 03, 2020

The bioactive sphingolipid ceramide affects immune responses although its effect on antigen (Ag) processing and delivery by HLA class II to CD4+T-cells remains unclear. Therefore, we examined the acti...

Effect of an Early Palliative Care Telehealth Intervention vs Usual Care on Patients With Heart Failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Clinical Trial.

Aug 03, 2020

National guidelines recommend early palliative care for patients with advanced heart failure, which disproportionately affects rural and minority populations.To determine the effect of an early pallia...

DACC Resting State Functional Connectivity as a Predictor of Pain Symptoms Following Motor Vehicle Crash: A Preliminary Investigation.

Aug 03, 2020

There is significant heterogeneity in pain outcomes following motor vehicle crashes (MVCs), such that a sizeable portion of individuals develop symptoms of chronic pain months after injury while other...

The association between lower Hounsfield units of the upper instrumented vertebra and proximal junctional kyphosis in adult spinal deformity surgery with a minimum 2-year follow-up.

Aug 03, 2020

Patients undergoing long-segment fusions from the lower thoracic (LT) spine to the sacrum for adult spinal deformity (ASD) correction are at risk for proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK). One mechanism ...

Pain catastrophizing is associated with the Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor in fibromyalgia.

Aug 03, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a musculoskeletal chronic pain syndrome that impacts negatively patient's daily lives. Its pathogenesis is characterized by a complex relationship between biological and psychosoc...

Gabapentinoid Benefit and Risk Stratification: Mechanisms Over Myth.

Aug 03, 2020

Recent years have seen a dramatic escalation of off-label prescribing for gabapentin and pregabalin (gabapentinoids) owing in part to generic versions of each being released over the past two decades,...

Preoperative bone health assessment and optimization in spine surgery.

Aug 03, 2020

The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the bone health in preoperative spine surgery patients. This information will provide a framework to understand the needs and methods for providin...

Association of osteopenia and osteoporosis with higher rates of pseudarthrosis and revision surgery in adult patients undergoing single-level lumbar fusion.

Aug 03, 2020

Patients with osteopenia or osteoporosis who require surgery for symptomatic degenerative spondylolisthesis may have higher rates of postoperative pseudarthrosis and need for revision surgery than pat...

Long-term radiographic and histological follow-up after resection of the distal interphalangeal joint using a plantar approach in German Holstein cows.

Aug 03, 2020

Resection of the distal interphalangeal joint (DIJ) is a claw-preserving method for treatment of septic arthritis. This study presents the radiographic and histological findings of the surgically-trea...

Direct evidence for decreased presynaptic inhibition evoked by PBSt group I muscle afferents after chronic SCI and recovery with step-training in the rat.

Jul 30, 2020

Presynaptic inhibition is modulated by supraspinal centers and primary afferents in order to filter sensory information, adjust spinal reflex excitability, and ensure smooth movements. After SCI, the ...

Peripheral Enthesitis in Spondyloarthritis: Lessons from Targeted Treatments.

Jul 30, 2020

A significant proportion of patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) have peripheral enthesitis. Data suggest that psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients with enthesitis have a higher disease burden than tho...

Complications of total knee arthroplasty in patients with haemophilia compared with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: A 20-year single-surgeon cohort.

Jul 30, 2020

Patients with haemophilia are prone to haemophilic arthropathy (HA). For end-stage HA, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective procedure. However, limited data were available regarding complicat...

Variability in opioid prescribing practices among cardiac surgeons and trainees.

Jul 30, 2020

The opioid epidemic has become a major public health crisis in recent years. Discharge opioid prescription following cardiac surgery has been associated with opioid use disorder; however, ideal practi...

Effect of Intravenous Acetaminophen on Postoperative Hypoxemia After Abdominal Surgery: The FACTOR Randomized Clinical Trial.

Jul 30, 2020

Opioid-induced ventilatory depression and hypoxemia is common, severe, and often unrecognized in postoperative patients. To the extent that nonopioid analgesics reduce opioid consumption, they may dec...

A dose titration study of fentanyl buccal soluble film for breakthrough cancer pain in Taiwan.

Jul 30, 2020

Fentanyl buccal soluble film (FBSF), a new formulation of fentanyl, is developed for the treatment of breakthrough pain (BTP) in opioid-tolerant patients with cancer.This study aimed to assess the fea...

Neurophysiological and biomolecular effects of erenumab in chronic migraine: An open label study.

Jul 30, 2020

Anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide antibodies proved effective in the preventive treatment of chronic migraine. In this open label study, we aim to assess the effects of erenumab administration on n...

Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for primary headache: A clinical update.

Jul 30, 2020

Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) is a proven treatment for cluster headache and migraine. Several possible mechanisms of action by which nVNS mitigates headache have been identified.We cond...

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