Related Experiment Videos
Gabapentin for opiod-related myoclonus in cancer patients
S Mercadante1, P Villari, F Fulfaro
1Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, La Maddalena Cancer Centre, Palermo, Italy. mercadsa@tin.it
Abstract:
Chronic opioid medication has been found to cause myoclonus in patients taking it for cancer pain. Gabapentin seemed a likely candidate for the treatment of this myoclonus and has indeed proved useful, as illustrated in this paper by two case histories.
Related Concept Videos
Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.
Infective endocarditis in the pediatric population: A single-center retrospective study of outcomes and predictors.
European journal of pediatrics·2026
The Sapienza University of Rome network of automated external defibrillators: a prototype webMap developed to speed access to community defibrillators and increase survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences·2023
Breakthrough pain in patients with multiple myeloma: a secondary analysis of IOPS MS study.
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences·2023
Knowledge, attitude, barriers, professional behaviour and possible interventions: a survey on healthcare-associated infections among the healthcare workers of an intensive care unit in a large teaching hospital in Rome.
Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita·2021
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated infections in intensive care unit patients: a retrospective cohort study.
Antimicrobial resistance and infection control·2021
Inaccessible mental health care is a risk factor for risky drinking behaviors among cancer survivors: an All of Us survey-based cohort study.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2026
PRiSM project: e-Delphi study on the role of specialist palliative care services in the care of people with stable locally advanced or metastatic cancer.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2026
Nutrition and physical activity interventions delivered to children and young people during cancer treatment: a systematic literature review.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2026
End-of-life sedation and gendered narrative registers: a longitudinal qualitative study of spouses bereaved by cancer.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2026
A multidisciplinary intervention to support return to work of individuals with breast cancer: a prospective feasibility study.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2026
Effects of self-acupressure on the fatigue-sleep disturbance-depression symptom cluster in breast cancer survivors: a phase III randomised controlled trial.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2026
Integrating Multi-Modal Biological Knowledge via Contrastive Dual-View Graph Learning for Phosphorylation Site-Disease Association Prediction.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)·2026
Comparative Efficacy of Aldosterone-Related Sodium-Retention Pathway Therapies for Resistant Hypertension: A Drug-Level Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)·2026
Pills and Perils: Navigating Polypharmacy in Older Adults.
Missouri medicine·2026