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[Practice guidelines for neuropathic pain management]
Uriah Guevara-López1, Alfredo Covarrubias-Gómez, Guillermo García-Ramos
1Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, México, DF. uriahguevara@yahoo.com.mx
Unlabelled:
Neuropathic pain (NP) is a heterogeneous entity with wide diversity of symptoms. Despite the controversies regarding its definition and classification, which difficult its epidemiology, it has been estimated that 4 million people, in USA develop NP.
Objective:
A task force was created to generate a series of recommendations which facilitate the decision making and therapeutic approach of this kind of pain.
Method:
A search of medical literature was made in different electronic data bases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COCHRANE); after this search we conducted three work-sessions and evaluated the evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of pain in painful diabetic poli-neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, and trigeminal neuralgia were evaluated.
Results:
We found 329 documents for further analysis, and with the aid of the literature results we generate this practice guidelines.
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