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Comparison of surgical decompression and local steroid injection in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome: 2-year clinical results from a randomized trial.
Rheumatology (Oxford)
August 2012
Centro de Salud Gandhi, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, C/Joaquín Rodrigo 2, 28222 Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
Objective: To compare the efficacy of surgical decompression vs local steroid injection in the treatment of idiopathic CTS.
Methods: This is an open, prospective, randomized clinical trial. We studied the effects of surgical decompression vs local steroid injection in 163 wrists with a clinical diagnosis and neurophysiological confirmation of CTS, with an extended follow-up of 2 years.
Epidural dextran-40 and paramethasone injection for treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
Can J Anaesth
June 2006
Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
Purpose: This report describes treatment with epidural dextran-40 and paramethasone injection of postural headache resulting from spontaneous intracranial hypotension in a pregnant patient.
Clinical Features: A 39-yr-old pregnant woman consulted the pain clinic for the assessment of a debilitating postural headache which was non-responsive to conventional analgesic treatment. Clinical findings and cranial magnetic resonance imaging indicated the diagnosis of spontaneous intracranial hypotension syndrome.
Surgical decompression versus local steroid injection in carpal tunnel syndrome: a one-year, prospective, randomized, open, controlled clinical trial.
Arthritis Rheum
February 2005
Primary Care Unit Gandhi, Madrid, Spain.
Objective: Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) has not been established. This study compared the effects of local steroid injection versus surgical decompression in new-onset CTS of at least 3 months' duration.
Methods: In a 1-year, prospective, randomized, open, controlled clinical trial, we studied the effects of surgical decompression versus local steroid injection in 163 wrists with a clinical and neurophysiologic diagnosis of CTS.
Tachon's syndrome (suracute back and/or thoracic pain following local injections of corticosteroids). A report of 318 French cases.
Joint Bone Spine
January 2005
Rheumatology Unit, CHU Nantes University Hospital, 44093 Nantes cedex 1, France.
Objectives: To assess the frequency, features, and outcome of excruciating lumbar, dorsal, and/or thoracic pain following injections of local corticosteroids in rare instances.
Methods: A questionnaire mailed to 500 French rheumatologists.
Results: Three hundred and eighteen cases were reported by 92 rheumatologists (one event per 8000 injections or 6.
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