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  • Title: Role of biphosphonates and lymphatic drainage type Leduc in the complex regional pain syndrome (shoulder-hand syndrome).
    Author: Santamato A, Ranieri M, Panza F, Solfrizzi V, Frisardi V, Stolfa I, Megna M, Fiore P.
    Journal: Pain Med; 2009 Jan; 10(1):179-85. PubMed ID: 19222778.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a clinical entity that has been termed in numerous ways in the last years. Clinically, CRPS describes an array of painful conditions that are characterized by a continuing (spontaneous and/or evoked) regional pain that is seemingly disproportionate in time or degree to the usual course of any known trauma or other lesion. The pain is regional and usually has a distal predominance of abnormal sensory, motor, sudomotor, vasomotor, and/or trophic findings. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University Medical Center. Patients. In this report, we described the case of a 68-year-old hemiplegic female affected by cerebrovascular accident that presented a clinical case of CRPS shoulder-hand syndrome (CRPS-SHS) at the right hand after a hemorrhagic stroke. INTERVENTIONS: This report evaluated the effects of biphosphonates and lymphatic drainage type Leduc in CRPS-SHS. OUTCOME MEASURES: The pain level of the patients was measured with the visual analog scale. A scoring system for the clinical severity of CRPS-SHS, laboratory tests, and X-ray films were also performed. RESULTS: We reported in this patient a great improvement of pain and edema of the right hand, with a significant reduction of bone demineralization. CONCLUSIONS: This combined treatment may be a viable alternative for this syndrome; however, further investigation is needed to determine its reproducibility in large case series.
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