Disease relevance of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• In eight women with polymyositis (three patients), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (three patients), rheumatoid arthritis (one patient) and shoulder-hand syndrome (one patient), weakness developed during high dose prednisone therapy [1].
• Because this allodynia has a clear resemblance to the characteristics of chronic pain in patients with causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy, prostaglandin F2 alpha may be involved in allodynia observed with these disorders [2].
• One-hundred consecutive patients were prospectively evaluated on admission to our Brain Injury Unit for signs and symptoms of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) in the upper extremity [3].
• METHODS--Ten of 20 consecutive patients with algodystrophy after Colles' fracture were treated with serial intravenous regional guanethidine blockades and the other 10 were treated with physiotherapy alone [4].
• A 59-year-old man developed dystonia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy after receiving high doses of ergotamine for migraine treatment [5].

High impact information on Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• CONCLUSIONS: In some patients, the dystonia associated with reflex sympathetic dystrophy responds markedly to intrathecal baclofen [6].
• In the first group, called "reflex sympathetic dystrophy" (RSD), the syndrome can be characterized by a triad of autonomic, motor, and sensory symptoms, which occur in a distally generalized distribution [7].
• Effect of vitamin C on frequency of reflex sympathetic dystrophy in wrist fractures: a randomised trial [8].
• Iodine-123-labelled iodoamphetamine single-photon emission computed tomography of patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome showed substantial variation in thalamic perfusion of the side contralateral to the painful limb [9].
• OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of the antiresorptive agent alendronate at a daily oral dose of 40 mg in patients with posttraumatic complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS I) of the lower extremity [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• Intravenous pamidronate for treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy during breast feeding [11].
• Complete resolution of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with thalidomide treatment [12].
• BACKGROUND: Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) (recently reclassified as complex regional pain syndrome type I) is a syndrome occurring in extremities and, when chronic, results in severe disability and untractable pain [13].
• Regional intravenous guanethidine vs. stellate ganglion block in reflex sympathetic dystrophies: a randomized trial [14].
• Treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with topical capsaicin. Case report [15].

Anatomical context of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• These techniques have applied to the evaluation of articular and para-articular diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, septic arthritis, osteoid osteoma, transient osteoporosis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, avascular necrosis, and facet joint syndrome [16].

Gene context of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• Second, the clinical usefulness was assessed in one case each of fracture, reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis of the ankle with radiographic correlation [17].
• Metastatic malignancy associated with reflex sympathetic dystrophy [18].
• We describe the cases of two patients with clinical and radiological findings of the reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS) in whom the history of a previous genito-urinary inflammation and high levels of ESR lead us to suspect a hidden reactive arthritis [19].
• Uncontrolled studies and case reports have indicated that pain or dysfunction was less at the end of capsaicin therapy for neck pain, loin pain/hematuria syndrome, oral mucositis, rhinopathy, reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, detrusor hyperreflexia, and cutaneous pain due to tumor of the skin [20].
• In the present case report, two patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy were treated with ketamine, a NMDA antagonist, morphine and bupivacaine [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

• Intravenous regional droperidol in the management of reflex sympathetic dystrophy: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study [22].
• The antinociceptive effect of local or systemic parecoxib combined with lidocaine/clonidine intravenous regional analgesia for complex regional pain syndrome type I in the arm [23].
• EMLA cream for venipuncture in patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy [24].
• This double-blind, randomized, multicenter study was designed to determine the short-term and long-term efficacy of intravenous regional block with guanethidine in patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)/causalgia [25].
• Intravenous regional bretylium and lidocaine for treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy: a randomized, double-blind study [26].

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