Relationship between pain relief, reduction in pain-associated sleep interference, and overall impression of improvement in patients with postherpetic neuralgia treated with extended-release gabapentin

BACKGROUND: Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) interferes with patients’ quality of life, and disturbed sleep is a prevalent complaint. Pain-associated sleep interference in turn enhances pain and/or reduces pain tolerance. Therefore, reducing sleep interference by pain, in addition to pain control, may i...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Neel, Bucior, Iwona, Bujanover, Shay, Shah, Rajiv, Gulati, Amitabh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27037091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0456-0

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