Taghizadeh, Ghorban Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad Goudarzi, Sepideh Jamali, Shamsi Mehdizadeh, Maryam
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Disability and rehabilitation
Pain is a common and debilitating symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and has no specific treatment. King's Parkinson's disease Pain Scale (KPPS) is the only specific scale for pain measurement in PD with established psychometric properties. The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of KPPS, an important parameter for the design and interp...
Simis, Marcel Pacheco-Barrios, Kevin Uygur-Kucukseymen, Elif Castelo-Branco, Luis Battistella, Linamara R Fregni, Felipe
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Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
The pain related to spinal cord injury (SCI) is difficult to treat, and it is associated with significant morbidity. One aspect to improve therapeutics is to explore markers of pain and its correlates in SCI. In this cross-sectional neurophysiological analysis of a randomized, double-blind controlled trial, 39 patients with SCI were included. We an...
Maheshwari, Ankit Patra, Partha Sarathi Ray, Sukanta Dhali, G K Das, Kshaunish
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Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
Prognostic stratification in ChronicPancreatitis(CP) remains suboptimal and cumbersome. Chronic Pancreatitis Prognostic Score(COPPS) was recently developed to predict one-year hospitalisations in CP. External validation of COPPS in a geographically divergent patient population. A single-center prospective cohort study, conducted on out-patients of ...
Poulsen, Per Hoegh Carstensen, Ole Kærgaard, Anette Vestergaard, Jesper Medom Nielsen, Kent J Biering, Karin
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International archives of occupational and environmental health
This study investigates whether individuals who have sustained an electrical injury (EI) are diagnosed with unspecified pain or pain related to the musculoskeletal system in the years following the injury. Individuals listed in Danish registers as having sustained EIs were matched for sex, age, and year of injury in a cohort study with individuals ...
Muilu, Paula Rantalaiho, Vappu Kautiainen, Hannu Virta, Lauri Juhani Puolakka, Kari
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Joint bone spine
To evaluate opioid use among incident axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) patients compared to general population. From the national register, we identified all adult patients with axSpA (ICD-10 codes M45-46), who between 2010 and 2014 (index date, ID) were for the first time granted special reimbursement for any disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (...
Wu, Meng-Che Lu, Tsung-Chien Cheng, Ming-Tai Chen, Yun-Chang Liao, Edward Che-Wei Sung, Chih-Wei Tay, Joyce Ko, Chia-Hsin Fang, Cheng-Chung Huang, Chien-Hua
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The American journal of emergency medicine
Little is known about pain trajectories in the emergency department (ED), which could inform the heterogeneous response to pain treatment. We aimed to identify clinically relevant subphenotypes of pain resolution in the ED and their relationships with clinical outcomes. This retrospective cohort study used electronic clinical warehouse data from a ...
Chalidis, Byron Kitridis, Dimitrios Givissis, Panagiotis
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European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie
Diabetes mellitus (DM) has been associated with poorer outcomes in total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, it is not clear if insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients display more perioperative complications and a worse clinical outcome compared to patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NI...
Henderson-Redmond, Angela N Sepulveda, Diana E Ferguson, Erin L Kline, Aaron M Piscura, Mary K Morgan, Daniel J
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Psychopharmacology
Tolerance to cannabinoids could limit their therapeutic potential. Male mice expressing a desensitization-resistant form (S426A/S430A) of the type-1 cannabinoid receptor (CB1R) show delayed tolerance to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (∆9-THC) but not CP55,940. With more women than men using medical cannabis for pain relief, it is essential to underst...
Montebello, Mark Jefferies, Meryem Mills, Llewellyn Bruno, Raimondo Copeland, Jan McGregor, Iain Rivas, Consuelo Jackson, Melissa A Silsbury, Catherine Dunlop, Adrian
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Drug and alcohol dependence
Mood, sleep and pain problems are common comorbidities among treatment-seeking cannabis-dependent patients. There is limited evidence suggesting treatment for cannabis dependence is associated with their improvement. This study explored the impact of cannabis dependence treatment on these comorbidities. This is a secondary analysis from a 12-week d...
Sim, Jae Kyeom Lee, Sang-Min Kang, Hyung Koo Kim, Kyung Chan Kim, Young Sam Kim, Yun Seong Lee, Won-Yeon Park, Sunghoon Park, So Young Park, Ju-Hee
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The Korean journal of internal medicine
There are few studies describing contemporary status of mechanical ventilation in Korea. We investigated changes in management and outcome of mechanical ventilation in Korea. International, prospective observational cohort studies have been conducted every 6 years since 1998. Korean intensive care units (ICUs) participated in 2010 and 2016 cohorts....