Relief of nocturnal neuropathic pain with the use of cannabis in a patient with Fabry disease

Neuropathic pain is one of the most invalidating symptoms in patients with Fabry disease (FD), affecting their quality of life, it is linked to small fiber neuropathy and it may not respond to available disease specific treatments. We report the case of a 32 years old man with classic FD and severe...

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Autores principales: Bon, Martina, Dardis, Andrea, Scarpa, Maurizio, Sechi, Annalisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10694749/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2023.101010
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description Neuropathic pain is one of the most invalidating symptoms in patients with Fabry disease (FD), affecting their quality of life, it is linked to small fiber neuropathy and it may not respond to available disease specific treatments. We report the case of a 32 years old man with classic FD and severe neuropathic pain who, after the failure of several standard pharmaceutical approaches, was treated with medical cannabis with relief of nocturnal pain and sleep improvement.
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spelling pubmed-106947492023-12-05 Relief of nocturnal neuropathic pain with the use of cannabis in a patient with Fabry disease Bon, Martina Dardis, Andrea Scarpa, Maurizio Sechi, Annalisa Mol Genet Metab Rep Case Report Neuropathic pain is one of the most invalidating symptoms in patients with Fabry disease (FD), affecting their quality of life, it is linked to small fiber neuropathy and it may not respond to available disease specific treatments. We report the case of a 32 years old man with classic FD and severe neuropathic pain who, after the failure of several standard pharmaceutical approaches, was treated with medical cannabis with relief of nocturnal pain and sleep improvement. Elsevier 2023-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10694749/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2023.101010 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Relief of nocturnal neuropathic pain with the use of cannabis in a patient with Fabry disease
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