Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report

Hiccups may appear to be a common normal phenomenon that does not warrant treatment in the general population. However, severe and persistent hiccups can become annoying and distressing and may decrease the quality of life, especially in cancer patients. The management of hiccups remains challenging...

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Autores principales: Alshammary, Sami Ayed, Al Fraihat, Luma Abdelsalam Shraydeh, Farahat, Yara H, Alshehri, Abdulaziz, Almustanyir, Sami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10149886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37139273
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36982
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author Alshammary, Sami Ayed
Al Fraihat, Luma Abdelsalam Shraydeh
Farahat, Yara H
Alshehri, Abdulaziz
Almustanyir, Sami
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description Hiccups may appear to be a common normal phenomenon that does not warrant treatment in the general population. However, severe and persistent hiccups can become annoying and distressing and may decrease the quality of life, especially in cancer patients. The management of hiccups remains challenging. Despite trying many pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods, there is no clear evidence to support the management guidelines. In our case, we successfully treated persistent hiccups of more than four days duration in a patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia with gabapentin.
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spelling pubmed-101498862023-05-02 Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report Alshammary, Sami Ayed Al Fraihat, Luma Abdelsalam Shraydeh Farahat, Yara H Alshehri, Abdulaziz Almustanyir, Sami Cureus Neurology Hiccups may appear to be a common normal phenomenon that does not warrant treatment in the general population. However, severe and persistent hiccups can become annoying and distressing and may decrease the quality of life, especially in cancer patients. The management of hiccups remains challenging. Despite trying many pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods, there is no clear evidence to support the management guidelines. In our case, we successfully treated persistent hiccups of more than four days duration in a patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia with gabapentin. Cureus 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10149886/ /pubmed/37139273 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36982 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alshammary et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alshammary, Sami Ayed
Al Fraihat, Luma Abdelsalam Shraydeh
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Alshehri, Abdulaziz
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Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report
title Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report
title_full Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report
title_fullStr Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report
title_short Successful Treatment of Persistent Hiccups in an Advanced Palliative Cancer Patient With Gabapentin: A Case Report
title_sort successful treatment of persistent hiccups in an advanced palliative cancer patient with gabapentin: a case report
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10149886/
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