- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Theories, history, and current taxonomy
- Chapter 2 Pathophysiology of neuropathic pain
- Chapter 3 Epidemiology
- Chapter 4 Clinical assessment and diagnostic work-up
- Chapter 5 Screening tools and measurement tools for neuropathic pain
- Chapter 6 Peripheral neuropathic pain
- Chapter 7 Central neuropathic pain
- Chapter 8 Complex regional pain syndrome
- Chapter 9 Cancer neuropathic pain
- Chapter 10 Neuropathic back pain
- Chapter 11 Antidepressants and antiepileptics for neuropathic pain
- Chapter 12 Local anaesthetics and other pharmacological approaches
- Chapter 13 Ketamine and other NMDA receptor antagonists
- Chapter 14 Opioids
- Chapter 15 Intrathecal drug delivery and neurolytic blocks
- Chapter 16 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and acupuncture
- Chapter 17 Spinal cord stimulation
- Chapter 18 Drug synergy and sequencing
- Chapter 19 Patient perspectives
- Appendix 1 Useful links
- Appendix 2 Neuropathic pain descriptor scales
- Index
(p. 93) (p. 94) (p. 95) Antidepressants and antiepileptics for neuropathic pain
- Author(s):
Henry J. McQuay
and Philip Wiffen
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199563678.003.0011
Antidepressants and antiepileptics are well-established treatments for neuropathic pain
Clinical trial evidence can be limited in both scope of neuropathic pain conditions studied and duration of treatment. This leaves prescribers to extrapolate evidence to other conditions, and without information on longer-term effects
Lack of head-to-head comparisons results in the use of indirect evidence such as NNTs, but the sample size used to derive NNT values is equally important...
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- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Theories, history, and current taxonomy
- Chapter 2 Pathophysiology of neuropathic pain
- Chapter 3 Epidemiology
- Chapter 4 Clinical assessment and diagnostic work-up
- Chapter 5 Screening tools and measurement tools for neuropathic pain
- Chapter 6 Peripheral neuropathic pain
- Chapter 7 Central neuropathic pain
- Chapter 8 Complex regional pain syndrome
- Chapter 9 Cancer neuropathic pain
- Chapter 10 Neuropathic back pain
- Chapter 11 Antidepressants and antiepileptics for neuropathic pain
- Chapter 12 Local anaesthetics and other pharmacological approaches
- Chapter 13 Ketamine and other NMDA receptor antagonists
- Chapter 14 Opioids
- Chapter 15 Intrathecal drug delivery and neurolytic blocks
- Chapter 16 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and acupuncture
- Chapter 17 Spinal cord stimulation
- Chapter 18 Drug synergy and sequencing
- Chapter 19 Patient perspectives
- Appendix 1 Useful links
- Appendix 2 Neuropathic pain descriptor scales
- Index