Thoracotomy: Gain With Less Pain?

PPARγ in Monocytes: Less Pain, Any Gain?

the myeloid lineage was described earlier, no biological Introduction function for this receptor in these cells has been deAs the population of the U.S. and other industrial counscribed. In the past few months, four papers have pretries ages and gets fatter, there is a more urgent need sented data suggesting that ligand activation of this to understand the molecular basis of obesity and those r...

Pain control after thoracotomy.

Post Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome

Post-thoracotomy pain is one of the most severe and long lasting complications after surgery (1-4) which acutely contributes to limit normal respiratory activity impairing the sputum clearance and reducing ventilatory function (5). Along with limb amputation, thoracotomy is the surgical procedure with the highest risk of severe and long lasting acute postoperative pain (6). Moreover, a chronic ...

Post Thoracotomy Pain Management

Introduction The pathway of a pain impulse starts with the primary afferent nerve fibers (C and Aδ) whose axons end in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Nociceptive information is passed to the contralateral side of the spinal cord and, after synapsing, ascends in the anterolateral system as spinothalamic tracts. The primary areas of the brain that respond to pain stimuli are the somatosensor...

Pain Relief Methods after Thoracotomy

Background: Thoracotomy is one of the surgical operations which causes severe pain. In fact, this pain is one of the most excruciating pains caused by surgical operations. Different procedures are performed to decrease this pain which is associated with significant physiologic, mental and pathologic complications. Each of these procedures has its own advantage and disadvantages. In many centers...