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Sinem Sari1, Osman Nuri Aydın2, Banu Tasdemir3
1Department of Anaesthesia and Reanimation, Adnan Menderes University Medical Faculty, Aydin, Turkey sarisinem@yahoo.com.
Aim:
To investigate the impact of statin use on response to fluoroscopy-assisted transforaminal anterior epidural steroid injection (TAESI).
Methods:
Patients undergoing TAESI for low back pain were recruited and stratified according to statin use. Pain was evaluated with a visual analogue scale (VAS) before and at 1, 3, and 6 months after TAESI. Health-related quality-of-life was evaluated using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire 6 months after TAESI.
Results:
There were no significant differences in VAS scores after TAESI between statin users (n = 40) and statin nonusers (n = 253). The SF-36 subgroup: role limitations due to emotional problems score was significantly lower in statin users than statin nonusers. There were no significant between-group differences in any other SF-36 parameter.
Conclusion:
Statin use had no effect on pain scores after TAESI.
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