Chronic postoperative pain syndrome and its neuropathic component in long-term period of coronary artery bypass grafting
- Authors: Paromov K.V.1, Volkov D.A.1,2, Svirskii D.A.2, Lychakov A.V.1, Salakhov V.A.1, Kirov M.Y.1,2
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Affiliations:
- First Clinical City Hospital named after E.E. Volosevich
- Northern State Medical University
- Issue: Vol 18, No 3 (2024)
- Pages: 272-283
- Section: Original articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1993-6508/article/view/284413
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/RA634397
- ID: 284413
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Along with increased safety and quality of the early postoperative period, 6.9% of patients who undergo sternotomy experience chronic pain at the surgical site. The significance of this issue is underestimated, with a third of these patients developing a neuropathic component of chronic pain syndrome.
AIM: To assess the severity of acute and chronic postoperative pain following sternotomy and to identify predictors of the neuropathic component of chronic pain syndrome.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Out of 115 patients who underwent elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) randomized according to method of anesthesia, two study groups were formed based on the results of a telephone survey: a general anesthesia group (GA, n =28) and a combined anesthesia group (CA, n =34). As part of the post hoc analysis, a logistic regression model was built to predict chronic neuropathic pain syndrome based on gender, age, anesthesia method, and factors assessing the severity of the perioperative period and myocardial impairment.
RESULTS: Chronic postoperative pain syndrome was identified in 25.8% of patients, with a neuropathic component confirmed in 19.4% of cases. Pain severity at rest in the GA and CA groups was 2.0 (1.0) and 3.0 (3.0) points on a numeric rating scale one hour after extubation, and 2.0 (2.0) and 2.0 (2.0) points by the end of the first postoperative day (p =0.193 and 0.610, respectively). The logistic regression model achieved an AUROC of 0,82 (95% CI 0,68–0,96) with χ 2 (10)=10.62, p =0.39.
CONCLUSIONS: Neuropathic pain was diagnosed in 19.4% of patients following CABG. The use of regional anesthesia and the severity of acute pain did not impact the development of neuropathic pain syndrome in the long-term period after surgery. The proposed model for predicting the neuropathic component of chronic pain syndrome after CABG requires further improvement.
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Konstantin V. Paromov
First Clinical City Hospital named after E.E. Volosevich
Author for correspondence.
Email: kp-82@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5138-3617
SPIN-code: 9673-1896
MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine)
Russian Federation, ArkhangelskDmitriy A. Volkov
First Clinical City Hospital named after E.E. Volosevich; Northern State Medical University
Email: dmitrii_volkov_93@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1558-9391
SPIN-code: 9120-3931
MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine)
Russian Federation, Arkhangelsk; ArkhangelskDmitrii A. Svirskii
Northern State Medical University
Email: dsvirskiy@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5798-9209
SPIN-code: 9740-9109
MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine), associate professor
Russian Federation, ArkhangelskAndrei V. Lychakov
First Clinical City Hospital named after E.E. Volosevich
Email: land8437@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0002-3732-4052
Russian Federation, Arkhangelsk
Vadim A. Salakhov
First Clinical City Hospital named after E.E. Volosevich
Email: salakhovmd@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0000-2397-0606
Russian Federation, Arkhangelsk
Mikhail Yu. Kirov
First Clinical City Hospital named after E.E. Volosevich; Northern State Medical University
Email: mikhail_kirov@hotmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4375-3374
SPIN-code: 2025-8162
MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), p rofessor, corresponding member of the RAS
Russian Federation, Arkhangelsk; ArkhangelskReferences
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