Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin

Adult-onset erythromelalgia (EM) is a rare disease characterized by episodic bouts of burning pain and erythema for which the optimal therapy is unclear. In this report, we describe a 68-year-old Japanese woman with adult-onset EM. Intravenous administration of methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,...

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Autores principales: Kakizaki, Aya, Fujimura, Taku, Kambayashi, Yumi, Watabe, Akiko, Aiba, Setsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Published online: November, 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000345377
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author Kakizaki, Aya
Fujimura, Taku
Kambayashi, Yumi
Watabe, Akiko
Aiba, Setsuya
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description Adult-onset erythromelalgia (EM) is a rare disease characterized by episodic bouts of burning pain and erythema for which the optimal therapy is unclear. In this report, we describe a 68-year-old Japanese woman with adult-onset EM. Intravenous administration of methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg/day dramatically improved her pain as evaluated by the visual analog scale. Although the patient's pain gradually developed again, it could be controlled with pregabalin. Our present case might suggest a possible, optimal therapy for adult-onset EM.
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spelling pubmed-35319442012-12-28 Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin Kakizaki, Aya Fujimura, Taku Kambayashi, Yumi Watabe, Akiko Aiba, Setsuya Case Rep Dermatol Published online: November, 2012 Adult-onset erythromelalgia (EM) is a rare disease characterized by episodic bouts of burning pain and erythema for which the optimal therapy is unclear. In this report, we describe a 68-year-old Japanese woman with adult-onset EM. Intravenous administration of methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg/day dramatically improved her pain as evaluated by the visual analog scale. Although the patient's pain gradually developed again, it could be controlled with pregabalin. Our present case might suggest a possible, optimal therapy for adult-onset EM. S. Karger AG 2012-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3531944/ /pubmed/23275767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000345377 Text en Copyright © 2012 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: November, 2012
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Fujimura, Taku
Kambayashi, Yumi
Watabe, Akiko
Aiba, Setsuya
Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin
title Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin
title_full Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin
title_fullStr Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin
title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin
title_short Successful Treatment of Adult-Onset Erythromelalgia with Steroid Pulse and Pregabalin
title_sort successful treatment of adult-onset erythromelalgia with steroid pulse and pregabalin
topic Published online: November, 2012
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000345377
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