Prakt. Lékáren. 2019; 15(4e): 38-44
Neuropathic pain treatment
- Klinika algeziologie a preventivní péče, Medicinecare, s.r.o., Brno
- Chirurgická klinika FN Brno a LF MU
Neuropathic pain is one of the most difficult pain condition to treat. Many common analgesics are ineffective in treating it. In therapy to the
forefront are coming above all mainly a group of drugs from anticonvulsants, anti depressives, opioids with increased affinity to neuropathic
pain and lately new topical form of medicaments. Occurrence of the neuropathic pain is increasing exponentially with the age of the patients,
and at the same time the tolerance of the patients to anti neuropathic treatment is decreasing. Major benefit to treatment of the neuropathic pain was formation of unified EFNS guidelines on which the national guidelines are based. The most common form of the neuropathic pain
are polyneuropathy, trigeminal neuralgia, postherpetic neuralgia or central neurogenic pain.
Keywords: neuropathic pain, anticonvulsants, opioids, guidelines
Published: December 1, 2019 Show citation
