Abstract
Severe pain is a frequent symptom in the Guillain Barré syndrome and can be intense, long lasting and with no response to the usual analgesics, including parenteral opiates. Epidural analgesia using morphine chloride in low doses has satisfactorily relieved pain in this disease in nine patients.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Aged
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Analgesia, Epidural / instrumentation*
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Catheters, Indwelling*
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Combined Modality Therapy
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Morphine / administration & dosage*
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Pain Measurement
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Pain, Intractable / drug therapy*
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Physical Therapy Modalities
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Polyradiculoneuropathy / physiopathology*