• Pain Med · Apr 2008

    Case Reports

    Gabapentin therapy for painful, blind glaucomatous eye: case report.

    • Christos-Stavros Kavalieratos and Triantafillia Dimou.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Hellenic Red Cross, Henry Dunant General Hospital, Athens, Greece. ckavalie@yahoo.co.uk
    • Pain Med. 2008 Apr 1;9(3):377-8.

    BackgroundGabapentin is an antiepileptic used for neuropathic pain treatment. Glaucoma can be conceptualized an optic neuropathy associated with characteristic structural damage to the optic nerve and associated visual dysfunction.ObjectiveTo use gabapentin to relieve discomfort in a painful, blind glaucomatous eye of a patient unwilling to undergo further invasive treatment.DesignPatient rated his pregabapentin and postgabapentin pain by a verbal descriptor scale and a numerical scale.ResultsGabapentin provided significant pain relief (on a 0-10 scale, reduction from "8" to "0-2") at regular visits over 6 months.ConclusionsGabapentin may relieve pain in a painful, blind, glaucomatous eye.

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