We read with great interest the article by Schmader and colleagues [Schmader KE, Baron R, Haanpää ML, Mayer J, O'Connor AB, Rice AS, Stacey B. Treatment considerations for elderly and frail patients with neuropathic pain. Mayo Clin Proc. 2010 Mar;85(3 Suppl):S26-32] on neuropathic pain in elderly patients and its therapeutic approach, and we would like to share our experience. We performed a multicentre multidimensional study on a sample of elderly Italian patients affected with various peripheral nervous diseases in order to: 1) comprehensively characterize the pain through validated specific tools and 2) to discriminate the distinct types of neuropathic pain sensory profiles.
Comment on Lekpa et al., 'Socio-demographic and clinical profile of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics in sub-Saharan African elderly'.
BRIANI, CHIARA;
2013
Abstract
We read with great interest the article by Schmader and colleagues [Schmader KE, Baron R, Haanpää ML, Mayer J, O'Connor AB, Rice AS, Stacey B. Treatment considerations for elderly and frail patients with neuropathic pain. Mayo Clin Proc. 2010 Mar;85(3 Suppl):S26-32] on neuropathic pain in elderly patients and its therapeutic approach, and we would like to share our experience. We performed a multicentre multidimensional study on a sample of elderly Italian patients affected with various peripheral nervous diseases in order to: 1) comprehensively characterize the pain through validated specific tools and 2) to discriminate the distinct types of neuropathic pain sensory profiles.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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