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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2014
Multicenter StudySacroiliac joint radiofrequency ablation with a multilesion probe: a case series of 60 patients.
- Kevin E Vorenkamp, Peter C Schmidt, and Carlos A Pino.
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and †Department of Anesthesiology, University of Vermont, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont.
- Anesth. Analg.. 2014 Aug 1;119(2):460-2.
AbstractThis retrospective case series of patients with refractory sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain presents our first 77 SIJ radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures performed with a multilesion probe. Of these, 16 (20.8%) provided no relief; 55 (71.4%) provided >50% pain relief at 6 weeks; 42 (54.5%, 95% confidence interval, 42.8%-65.8%) provided >50% pain relief at 6 months; and 12 (15.6%) continued to provide >50% pain relief at 1 year. These results compare favorably to those published using other RFA techniques. In conclusion, more than half of our patients with refractory SIJ pain received some pain relief for at least 6 months after RFA.
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