| Autor: |
Al-Mahrouqi H, Munro Z, Acland RH, MacFarlane MR |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The New Zealand medical journal [N Z Med J] 2012 Dec 14; Vol. 125 (1367), pp. 132-4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Dec 14. |
| Abstrakt: |
We present the first patient in New Zealand to undergo Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) for intractable upper abdominal pain. The patient was a 53-year-old man with a 20-year history of debilitating upper abdominal pain associated with chronic pancreatitis secondary to pancreatic divisum. Prior to the SCS, he was prescribed 680 mg of morphine sulphate equi-analgesia a day. Despite the intense analgesia, he still suffered monthly attacks of upper abdominal pain requiring hospitalisation. Nine months after implanting a Spinal Cord Stimulator, the monthly attacks ceased, his background pain was effectively controlled and the need for opioids decreased to 510 mg of morphine sulphate equi-analgesia a day. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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