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E Wörz

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PubMed1995

[Long-term treatment of chronic pain with tilidine-naloxone. An analysis of 50 patients with chronic pain conditions of non-malignant origin].

METHOD: 50 patients with incurable chronic pain states were treated for a period of between six months and 14 years (median: 31 months) with tilidine-naloxone, and the results of tumor recorded. Amelioration of pain was achieved in an average of 60.7% of the cases. The 16 patients of this series suffering from neuropathic pain who received a somewhat lower dose responded equally as well (60.3% amelioration) as the overall group. In 24 patients suffering from pain, the daily dose remained unchanged throughout the course of treatment, had to be increased in 19, and was reduced in seven patients. In two patients, acceptable side-effects were indicated; in no case were there any signs of drug-induced organic damage. CONCLUSIONS: The results show that tilidine-naloxone is a highly effective opioid analgesic with a remarkably favorable benefit-risk ratio for use in long-term treatment.

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PubMed1990

[Pain syndromes following amputation. Analysis of 100 affected patients with chronic stump and phantom pain].

One hundred amputees (m = 95, f = 5) with a pain syndrome were analysed. In 80 patients post-amputation pain of the lower, in 20 of the upper, extremities presented. Thirty-two patients suffered bouts of pain, 68 constant pain of various types. The most commonly cited type of pain in the patients with intermittent pain was lancinating, in the case of constant pain a burning sensation. In some patients pain occurred immediately after the loss of the limb, in others not until several years, or even decades, later. Forty per cent of our patients indicated that the incidence and intensity of the pain increased with time. Neurological, orthopedic and internistic causes of stump or phantom pain have been described. In 72% of the patients with constant pain and in 34% of those suffering from bouts of pain, an algogenic psychosyndrome had developed. Complications and late sequelae of amputations are of considerable significance for the development and intensity of stump and phantom pain.

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