Chronic post-thoracotomy pain (literature review)


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The incidence of chronic post-thoracotomy pain may achieve up to 80% in patients undergone thoracic surgery. Many pathogenic factors are involved in developing of chronic pain and the main of them is injury of intercostal nerves. The neuropathic component of pain occurs in almost half of such patients worsening their status significantly and disrupting their activity. Valuable prophylaxis of chronic post- thoracotomy pain may be provided by preventive using methods of regional analgesia and epidural anesthesia and paravertebral block are the basic techniques for these purpose.

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V. Kh Timerbayev

FSBI “N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care”, Moscow Healthcare Department, 129090, Moscow

V. Yu Lesnik

FSBI “N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care”, Moscow Healthcare Department, 129090, Moscow

P. G Genov

FSBI “N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care”, Moscow Healthcare Department, 129090, Moscow

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