Sensory signs in complex regional pain syndrome and peripheral nerve injury
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- 1 April 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Pain
- Vol. 153 (4), 765-774
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2011.11.009
Abstract
E injury (PNI). Patients with upper-limb CRPS-I (n = 298), CRPS-II (n = 46), and PNI (n = 72) were examined with quantitative sensory testing according to the protocol of the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain. The majority of patients (66%–69%) exhibited a combination of sensory loss and gain. Patients with CRPS-I had more sensory gain (heat and pressure pain) and less sensory loss than patients with PNI (thermal and mechanical detection, hypoalgesia to heat or pinprick). CRPS-II patients shared features of CRPS-I and PNI. CRPS-I and CRPS-II had almost identical somatosensory profiles, with the exception of a stronger loss of mechanical detection in CRPS-II. In CRPS-I and -II, cold hyperalgesia/allodynia (28%–31%) and dynamic mechanical allodynia (24%–28%) were less frequent than heat or pressure hyperalgesia (36%–44%, 67%–73%), and mechanical hypoesthesia (31%–55%) was more frequent than thermal hypoesthesia (30%–44%). About 82% of PNI patients had at least one type of sensory gain. QST demonstrates more sensory loss in CRPS-I than hitherto considered, suggesting either minimal nerve injury or central inhibition. Sensory profiles suggest that CRPS-I and CRPS-II may represent one disease continuum. However, in contrast to recent suggestions, small fiber deficits were less frequent than large fiber deficits. Sensory gain is highly prevalent in PNI, indicating a better similarity of animal models to human patients than previously thought. These sensory profiles should help prioritize approaches for translation between animal and human research....Keywords
Funding Information
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01EM0501–01EM0512, 01EM0901–01EM0904)
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