Isotonic Glucose Injections for Postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly

Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a painful condition which is difficult to treat, especially among the elderly. This clinical case describes the treatment of an 88-year-old patient with PHN who continued to suffer from pain for several months despite oral and transdermal pain treatment. Multiple intr...

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Autores principales: Kersschot, Jan, Karavani, Ilan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324341
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29740
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description Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a painful condition which is difficult to treat, especially among the elderly. This clinical case describes the treatment of an 88-year-old patient with PHN who continued to suffer from pain for several months despite oral and transdermal pain treatment. Multiple intradermal glucose 5% injections allowed her to discontinue her pain medication regimen after four sessions. The improvement was sustained at the four-month follow-up after the last procedure. A fifth session was performed because of a flaring up of the pain.
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spelling pubmed-96175112022-11-01 Isotonic Glucose Injections for Postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly Kersschot, Jan Karavani, Ilan Cureus Dermatology Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a painful condition which is difficult to treat, especially among the elderly. This clinical case describes the treatment of an 88-year-old patient with PHN who continued to suffer from pain for several months despite oral and transdermal pain treatment. Multiple intradermal glucose 5% injections allowed her to discontinue her pain medication regimen after four sessions. The improvement was sustained at the four-month follow-up after the last procedure. A fifth session was performed because of a flaring up of the pain. Cureus 2022-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9617511/ /pubmed/36324341 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29740 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kersschot 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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Kersschot, Jan
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Isotonic Glucose Injections for Postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly
title Isotonic Glucose Injections for Postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly
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title_fullStr Isotonic Glucose Injections for Postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly
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title_short Isotonic Glucose Injections for Postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly
title_sort isotonic glucose injections for postherpetic neuralgia in the elderly
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617511/
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