TY - JOUR
T1 - Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of upper and lower extremity neuropathic pain due to Lyme disease
AU - Mearini, Massimo
AU - Podetta, Stefano
AU - Catenacci, Emanuela
AU - D'Auria, Patrizia
AU - Cornali, Claudio
AU - Mortini, Pietro
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Background. Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia, a bacterium transmitted by the bite of a deer tick. A slow developing encephalopathy or an axonal polyneuropathy with distal paresthesia and spinal or radicular pain rarely occurs and can be hard to treat. Materials and Methods. We report here the case of a 44-year-old woman with four-limb, intolerable, neuropathic pain as sequelae to Lyme disease, which was resistant to conservative measures and was treated successfully with concurrent, thoracic, and cervical percutaneous spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Results. After 18 months of therapy and follow-up, this patient's analgesia, as a result of SCS, continues to be excellent, with almost complete subjective pain relief and cessation of adjuvant analgesic medication. Conclusions. SCS may be efficacious for the treatment of neuropathic pain due to Lyme disease.
AB - Background. Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia, a bacterium transmitted by the bite of a deer tick. A slow developing encephalopathy or an axonal polyneuropathy with distal paresthesia and spinal or radicular pain rarely occurs and can be hard to treat. Materials and Methods. We report here the case of a 44-year-old woman with four-limb, intolerable, neuropathic pain as sequelae to Lyme disease, which was resistant to conservative measures and was treated successfully with concurrent, thoracic, and cervical percutaneous spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Results. After 18 months of therapy and follow-up, this patient's analgesia, as a result of SCS, continues to be excellent, with almost complete subjective pain relief and cessation of adjuvant analgesic medication. Conclusions. SCS may be efficacious for the treatment of neuropathic pain due to Lyme disease.
KW - Lyme disease
KW - Neuropathic pain
KW - Spinal cord stimulation
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2007.00102.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2007.00102.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22151863
AN - SCOPUS:33947697794
VL - 10
SP - 142
EP - 147
JO - Neuromodulation
JF - Neuromodulation
SN - 1094-7159
IS - 2
ER -