Update on pharmacotherapy guidelines for treatment of neuropathic pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-214

  Wallace, J Mark ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CANNABIDIOL; CANNABIDIOL PLUS DRONABINOL; CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; GW 1000; LORAZEPAM; MORPHINE; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXYCODONE; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BLURRED VISION; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DECREASED APPETITE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIARRHEA; DISORIENTATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DIZZINESS; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG ALCOHOL INTERACTION; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG URINE LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; EUPHORIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; INTOXICATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY DISORDER; META ANALYSIS; MOUTH DISEASE; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYPHARMACY; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THOUGHT DISORDER; TOXIC HEPATITIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CANNABIDIOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; THIOPHENES;

EID: 34249817909     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0192-6     Document Type: Review

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