Treatment of De Quervain’s Disease: Role of Conservative Management
| Autor: | S. A. Stuchin, R. S. Boretz, L. B. Lane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent medicine.drug_class medicine.medical_treatment Administration Oral Disease Betamethasone Injections Intra-Articular Naproxen medicine Humans Combined Modality Therapy De Quervain Disease Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Transplantation Chemotherapy business.industry Retrospective cohort study Tenosynovitis Middle Aged Surgery Splints medicine.anatomical_structure Corticosteroid Upper limb Female business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hand Surgery. 26:258-260 |
| ISSN: | 0266-7681 |
| Popis: | This retrospective study compares two methods used to treat de Quervain’s disease: splintage with oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and steroid injection. Patients were separated into three groups based on symptom severity: group I-minimal, group II-mild, and group III-moderate or severe. Three hundred and nineteen wrists in 300 patients were followed from one to six years. Fifteen of 17 patients with minimal symptoms were relieved with splintage and NSAIDs. However, only seven of 20 in Group II and two of eight in Group III treated similarly were relieved. Of the 249 patients in Group III treated with injections, 76% were completely relieved, 7% were improved, and 4% were not improved. We conclude that classification of patients’ with de Quervain’s disease based on their pre-treatment symptoms may assist surgeons in selecting the most efficacious treatment and in providing prognostic information to their patients. |
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