Pamidronate effect compared with a steroid on complex regional pain syndrome type I: Pilot randomised trial.

CONCLUSIONS: Intravenous pamidronate therapy was safe, well tolerated and appeared as effective as a steroid for pain control for post-stroke CRPS. However, this result should be interpreted with caution, since it included a relatively small number of patients. Further larger controlled studies followed over a longer period are needed to validate these findings and to determine clinical treatment standards. PMID: 26819359 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819359?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Netherlands Journal of Medicine - January 1, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Eun Young H, Hyeyun K, Sang Hee I Tags: Neth J Med Source Type: research