Interventions for Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Bayesian Mixed Treatment Comparison Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials.
Kannan SridharanGowri SivaramakrishnanPublished in: Clinical drug investigation (2018)
We found that drug-related interventions that include sumatriptan, intranasal lidocaine, intravenous lidocaine, and botulinum toxin and combined continuous and pulsed radiofrequency thermocoagulation had significant effects in reducing pain in patients with refractory TN. However, the quality of evidence was graded as very low for all except botulinum toxin.
Keyphrases
- botulinum toxin
- clinical trial
- systematic review
- physical activity
- neuropathic pain
- double blind
- open label
- phase ii
- chronic pain
- phase iii
- meta analyses
- pain management
- emergency department
- spinal cord injury
- randomized controlled trial
- catheter ablation
- low dose
- adverse drug
- smoking cessation
- clinical evaluation
- replacement therapy