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J. Diabetes Complicat. · Jan 2015
ReviewFrom guideline to patient: a review of recent recommendations for pharmacotherapy of painful diabetic neuropathy.
- Dan Ziegler and Vivian Fonseca.
- Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany; Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: dan.ziegler@ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de.
- J. Diabetes Complicat. 2015 Jan 1; 29 (1): 146-56.
AbstractPainful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus, affecting, by some estimates, up to one quarter of diabetic patients. Since 2010, no fewer than 5 major international treatment guidelines for painful DPN have been issued, and there are meaningful differences among them. Duloxetine, pregabalin, gabapentin, and tricyclic antidepressants are the mainstays of treatment, but the choice of which class or agent to use in any given patient should be informed by patient characteristics. This review seeks to describe the differences among the recently issued guidelines, to assess the evidence on which they are based, and to offer insight into the most appropriate treatment choices based on patient characteristics.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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