Sympathetic Blocks for Visceral Pain.
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Vorenkamp, K; Yi, P; Kemp, A
Published in: Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am
May 2022
For patients with chronic pain or cancer-related pain, the most common indication for sympathetic block is to control visceral pain arising from malignancies or other alterations of the abdominal and pelvic viscera. When it is recalcitrant to conservative care, or if the patient is intolerant to pharmacotherapy, consideration of sympathetic blocks or neurolytic procedures is considered. Potential advantages of a neurolytic procedure, compared with spinal and epidural anesthetic infusions, include cost savings and avoidance of hardware. Interventional therapies that target afferent visceral innervation via the sympathetic ganglia offer effective and durable analgesia and improve multiple metrics of quality of life.
Duke Scholars
Published In
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am
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EISSN
1558-1381
Publication Date
May 2022
Volume
33
Issue
2
Start / End Page
475 / 487
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Visceral Pain
- Rehabilitation
- Quality of Life
- Hypogastric Plexus
- Humans
- Celiac Plexus
- Autonomic Nerve Block
- 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
- 3202 Clinical sciences
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Vorenkamp, K., Yi, P., & Kemp, A. (2022). Sympathetic Blocks for Visceral Pain. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am, 33(2), 475–487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmr.2022.01.010
Vorenkamp, Kevin, Peter Yi, and Adam Kemp. “Sympathetic Blocks for Visceral Pain.” Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 33, no. 2 (May 2022): 475–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmr.2022.01.010.
Vorenkamp K, Yi P, Kemp A. Sympathetic Blocks for Visceral Pain. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2022 May;33(2):475–87.
Vorenkamp, Kevin, et al. “Sympathetic Blocks for Visceral Pain.” Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am, vol. 33, no. 2, May 2022, pp. 475–87. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.pmr.2022.01.010.
Vorenkamp K, Yi P, Kemp A. Sympathetic Blocks for Visceral Pain. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2022 May;33(2):475–487.
Published In
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am
DOI
EISSN
1558-1381
Publication Date
May 2022
Volume
33
Issue
2
Start / End Page
475 / 487
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Visceral Pain
- Rehabilitation
- Quality of Life
- Hypogastric Plexus
- Humans
- Celiac Plexus
- Autonomic Nerve Block
- 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
- 3202 Clinical sciences