Pain management: Fibromyalgia drugs are 'as good as it gets' in chronic pain

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 439-440

  Clauw, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DULOXETINE; MILNACIPRAN; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EFFECT SIZE; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTENSION; LIVER TOXICITY; NAUSEA; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANALGESICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955331672     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2010.120     Document Type: Short Survey

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