Abstract

DIOS DEL VALLE, R. de; GONZALEZ TORREJON, M.  and  SACRISTAN RODEA, A.. Neuropathy pain treatment: gabapentin is an option. Medifam [online]. 2001, vol.11, n.4, pp.94-99. ISSN 1131-5768.

The painful is a common sympton in Primary Health Care consultation. It is possible to find two sorts of painful; the nociceptive and the neuropathy one. The neuropathy pain has often been considered as a pain without treatment, and actually it is more difficult to control than de nociceptive pain. There are different drugs, specially antidepresive and antiepileptic drugs, used in the neuropathy pain treatment, but there are few evidences and no clinical protocols about which is the best management of pain in these patients. It is reported a case of a patient with cordoma as example of therapeutic management of neuropathy pain, the use of different drugs without succes. In this case, the gabapentin, drug not very used as analgesic, was useful in the control of the neuropathy pain.

Keywords : Pain; Palliative Care; Anticonvulsants.

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