Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Pain in scleritis may be difficult to control with conventional immuno-suppressive regimes. Amitriptyline may be an effective option in those circumstances. CASE PRESENTATION: A 41-year-old woman presented with scleritis and eye pain that was refractory to treatment with steroid and im...

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Autores principales: Ohn, Mya Thida, Gupta, Deepak, Burton, Ben J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8148
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description INTRODUCTION: Pain in scleritis may be difficult to control with conventional immuno-suppressive regimes. Amitriptyline may be an effective option in those circumstances. CASE PRESENTATION: A 41-year-old woman presented with scleritis and eye pain that was refractory to treatment with steroid and immunosuppressive agents. Effective pain relief and reduction of steroid dose was only achieved after starting amitriptyline. CONCLUSION: Amitriptyline may be an effective option for pain control in case with scleritis which might otherwise require unnecessarily large doses of immunosuppression.
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spelling pubmed-27694112009-11-16 Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report Ohn, Mya Thida Gupta, Deepak Burton, Ben J Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Pain in scleritis may be difficult to control with conventional immuno-suppressive regimes. Amitriptyline may be an effective option in those circumstances. CASE PRESENTATION: A 41-year-old woman presented with scleritis and eye pain that was refractory to treatment with steroid and immunosuppressive agents. Effective pain relief and reduction of steroid dose was only achieved after starting amitriptyline. CONCLUSION: Amitriptyline may be an effective option for pain control in case with scleritis which might otherwise require unnecessarily large doses of immunosuppression. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2769411/ /pubmed/19918461 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8148 Text en © 2009 Ohn et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
title Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
title_full Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
title_fullStr Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
title_short Amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
title_sort amitriptyline for pain control in scleritis may help to avoid excessive steroid use in selected cases: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8148
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