Despite numerous surgical and non-surgical treatments, including oral analgesics, local radiofrequency ablation, and surgical excision, proposed for painful neuromas, these interventions have not completely res
Numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanisms that underlie sex differences in pain signaling. In females, the immune system may be continuously “ready for action,” potentially due to the presence of two X chromosomes, each bearing a plethora of genes involved in immune respons...
Immune therapies, such as B cell ablation or plasmapheresis, may represent a means to reduce autoantibody titer, which could po- tentially also be applied to patients with persistent sciatic nerve pain. The sex chromosomes Sex chromosome-associated genes exhibit disparate ex- pression profiles that ...
Deer TR, Gilmore CA, Desai MJ, et al. Percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation of the medial branch nerves for the treatment of chronic axial back pain in patients after radiofrequency ablation.Pain Med. 2021;22(3):548–560. doi:10.1093/pm/pnaa432 ...
The innervating nerve comes mostly from contralateral facial nerve branches, few from ipsilateral facial nerve due to tumor ablation, and from ipsilateral motor branch to masseter or spinal accessory nerve due to Mobius syndrome. The author has used a short nerve graft (10 to 15 cm) to cross ...
be injured duringcryoablationorpulmonary vein isolationfor the treatment ofatrial arrhythmias,radiofrequency ablationof lung tumors, or by excessive cooling of the heart duringcardiopulmonary bypass. A full-thickness injury to the phrenic nerve recognized at the time of surgery should be treated with rep...
, the small ablation area produced by the single needle, which was used in RF treatment in the present study, the mild destruction in case of poor alignment, and the more limited segments being affected may have resulted in a less effective treatment with a low and mild complication rate. ...
Pain originating in the facet joint accounts for an estimated 15%–45% of cases of low back pain. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the medial branch nerves (MBN) is used in refractory cases. However, very few studies have compared the clinical outcomes of cooled versus conventional/traditional...
There was a 77.8% ± 3.3% reduction in cells immunoreactive for CD206 (∗p < 0.001). n = 3 per time point. Error bars indicate ± SEM. Scale bar, 50 μm. (I–Q) Targeted ablation of macrophages preceding the onset of remyelination disrupts Schwann cell dynamics. Representative ...
Destruction of the AV bundle, for example, through ablation, may also block all impulses to the ventricles. While ablation of a patient's AV node and/or AV bundle has been shown to block unwanted conduction of action potentials to the ventricles, these procedures are irreversible; thus, a ...