Spinal Infusions

10/01/2002 - "This report highlights the potential adverse mental affects of chronic spinal infusions for pain therapy and discusses pitfalls in toxicology analysis using immunoassay."
01/01/1995 - "The review indicates that spinal infusions may be best for bilateral or axial pain that has not responded to spinal stimulation. "
01/01/1995 - "Spinal cord stimulation versus spinal infusion for low back and leg pain."
05/01/1994 - "Long-term pain control has been maintained with an implanted spinal infusion pump. "
04/01/2007 - "Intrathecal inflammatory masses or granuloma have been described extensively in the literature in patients receiving chronic spinal infusions for pain. "

06/01/2001 - "Ever since the application in 1980 of morphine for spinal analgesia in patients with refractory cancer pain, spinal infusion therapy has become one of the cornerstones for the management of chronic, medically intractable pain. "

06/01/2001 - "Initially, spinal infusion therapy was indicated only for patients with cancer pain that could not be adequately controlled with systemic narcotics. "
06/01/2001 - "Ever since the application in 1980 of morphine for spinal analgesia in patients with refractory cancer pain, spinal infusion therapy has become one of the cornerstones for the management of chronic, medically intractable pain. "

01/01/2017 - "Here we have utilised the MPS IIIA Huntaway dog model to compare the effectiveness of the repeated intermittent bolus injection strategy being used in the trials with an alternate approach; slow, continual infusion of replacement enzyme (recombinant human sulphamidase; rhSGSH) into the spinal CSF using a SynchroMed II® pump attached to a spinal infusion cannula. "

07/01/2010 - "Intrathecal granuloma associated to the tip of subarachnoid catheters implanted in patients receiving long-term spinal infusion is a rare but potentially catastrophic complication. "
04/01/2004 - "Over the past decade granulomas have been noted to occur at or near the tip of intrathecal catheters used for spinal infusions. "
09/01/2010 - "Intrathecal granuloma associated to the tip of catheters implanted in patients receiving long-term spinal infusion to alleviate chronic pain is a rare but potentially catastrophic complication. "
04/01/2007 - "Intrathecal inflammatory masses or granuloma have been described extensively in the literature in patients receiving chronic spinal infusions for pain. "
07/01/2010 - "In this case, we report the first documented case of intrathecal granuloma formation in a patient receiving long-term spinal infusion of tramadol, and we put forward a hypothesis for its development. "