Articles: pain.
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Anesth Analg (Paris) · Jan 1981
[Curing trial of complicated oncologic pain by D-phenylalanine (author's transl)].
Aim of investigations: Very often, chronic pain treatments used for the management of terminal ill cancer patients do not prevent acute or incident pain from coming up. For twenty months D-phenylalanine (DPA), an enkephalinase inhibitor, has been investigated in order to forestall this pain. ⋯ DPA seems a useful drug to prevent acute or incident pain in malignant diseases. Our data point out the consequences the enkephalinases inhibitors will take up for the cure of intractable cancer pain.
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Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand · Jan 1981
Effect of an oral contraceptive on uterine tonicity in women with primary dysmenorrhea.
Hysterometry, a method for quantitative evaluation of the effect of pharmacologically active agents on the myometrium, has been applied to determine the effect of an oral contraceptive on uterine tonicity. Hysterometry was performed on the first day of each of two consecutive menstrual periods in 5 dysmenorrheic women. During the second cycle the women were given ethinylestradiol 50 microgram and lynestrenol 1 mg per day for 22 days. After the intake of this oral contraceptive, uterine tonicity decreased in all women, the decrease being accompanied by relief of dysmenorrheic pain.
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Anesth Analg (Paris) · Jan 1981
[Percutaneous cordotomy. Actual situation in pain surgery (author's transl)].
A personal experience with 138 percutaneous cordotomies is presented. The results and complications are compared to those of 49 open cordotomies at C1-C2 level. ⋯ For this reason the author prefers in certain cases open cordotomy in a modified microsurgical technique which is described. It is outlined that in the authors opinion cordotomy should be restricted to cancer pain.
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Effort-related chest pain and chest pain fulfilling the criteria of the Rose questionnaire for angina pectoris are often used as evidence for coronary heart disease. In patients with different kinds of oesophageal dysfunction (OD) the frequency of chest pain of angina-like type was studied and compared to that in the general population. ⋯ The chest pain was effort-related in 70% and in almost half of the cases their chest pain was classified as angina pectoris according to the Rose questionnaire. Since angina-like chest pain is a predominant symptoms in patients with OD and OD is far more common than angina pectoris due to myocardial ischemia in the general population, it is reasonable to assume that the oesophagus and not the heart is the most common source of angina-like chest pain.