• Am J Hosp Palliat Care · Feb 2010

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    Successful treatment of an intractable postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) using peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS).

    • Surjya Prasad Upadhyay Department of Anaesthesiology, Dr. BRA Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India., Shiv Pratap Rana, Seema Mishra, and Sushma Bhatnagar.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Dr. BRA Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
    • Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2010 Feb 1;27(1):59-62.

    AbstractPostherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a chronic neuropathic pain syndrome that arises as a sequel of herpes zoaster eruption. The treatment of postherpetic neuralgia is medically challenging and often frustrating in some situation as the exact mechanism of neuralgia is poorly understood and multiple and complex pathophysiology is postulated requiring poly pharmacy, which itself leads to many side effects. Here, we present a successful management of supra-orbital PHN using peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS), which was refractory to the commonly used pharmacological treatment. After successful trial stimulation, permanent stimulator was placed successfully, patient medication were tapered off within 2 weeks. At present, patient is in 8-week poststimulation with excellent pain relief, without any side effect.

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