Pregabalin-induced remission in a 62-year-old woman with a 20-year history of vulvodynia

Pain Research and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 212-214

  Jerome, Laurence ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gabapentinoids; Pregabalin; Vulvodynia

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DIGOXIN; ESTROGEN; LORAZEPAM; METHYLDOPA; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MANAGED CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; REMISSION; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVODYNIA;

EID: 34948857055     PISSN: 12036765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/265148     Document Type: Article

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