Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

11/01/2010 - "The role of adding hyaluronidase to fluoroscopically guided caudal steroid and hypertonic saline injection in patients with failed back surgery syndrome: a prospective, double-blinded, randomized study."
01/01/2014 - "Adjuvant hyaluronidase to epidural steroid improves the quality of analgesia in failed back surgery syndrome: a prospective randomized clinical trial."
08/01/2012 - "To evaluate the effect of hyaluronidase in patients with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) treated with interlaminar lumbar epidural injection (ILEI). "
08/01/2012 - "The effect of hyaluronidase in interlaminar lumbar epidural injection for failed back surgery syndrome."
01/01/2014 - "We conclude that adding hyaluronidase to the epidural injectate was effective in the management of chronic low back pain in patients with failed back surgery syndrome demonstrated over a period of 4 weeks."

07/01/1989 - "MRI has improved the evaluation of failed back surgery syndrome, and the administration of gadolinium-diethylene trimene pentacidic acid helps to differentiate postsurgical scar from recurrent disc herniation. "
01/01/1993 - "Gadolinium contrast also finds vital application in differentiating herniated disc from epidural fibrosis in the failed-back surgery syndrome, as well as hypointense disc from enhancing tumor in select cases. "
01/01/1993 - "In addition to improving diagnosis of neoplasia, gadolinium use is often necessary to demonstrate most cranial neuropathies and to differentiate herniated disc from epidural fibrosis in the failed-back surgery syndrome. "
12/01/1989 - "Twenty-one patients with failed back surgery syndrome (postdiscectomy syndrome) were studied to evaluate the possibility of 1-Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with gadolinium diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) in differentiating post operative scar tissue from recurrent disc herniation. "
06/01/1988 - "Thirty patients with failed back surgery syndrome were studied to evaluate the effectiveness of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid/dimeglumine (Gd-DTPA) in differentiating postoperative epidural fibrosis (scar) from recurrent disk herniation. "

04/01/1998 - "The efficacy of epidural corticosteroids remains questionable, especially in the chronic failed back surgery syndrome (CFBSS). "
04/01/1998 - "Transforaminal nerve root sleeve injection with corticosteroids, hyaluronidase, and local anesthetic in the failed back surgery syndrome."

06/01/2014 - "There is weak positive evidence that LOA is more effective than conventional caudal epidural steroid injections for failed back surgery syndrome and spinal stenosis, and that LOA is more effective than sham adhesiolysis and conservative management for lumbosacral radiculopathy. "

10/01/1990 - "This study defines the accuracy of gadopentetate-dimeglumine-enhanced MR imaging in patients with failed back surgery syndrome by comparing the imaging studies with surgical findings in a large patient population. "
07/01/1990 - "This study defines the accuracy of gadopentetate-dimeglumine-enhanced MR imaging in patients with failed back surgery syndrome by comparing the imaging studies with surgical findings in a large patient population. "
09/01/1993 - "In a prospective study, 132 previously operated disc levels in 109 patients with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) were examined by MR imaging before and after intravenous application of a contrast agent (0.1 mmol Gd-DTPA/kg). "
04/01/1995 - "Failed back surgery syndrome: differentiating epidural fibrosis and recurrent disc prolapse with Gd-DTPA enhanced MRI."
12/01/1989 - "Twenty-one patients with failed back surgery syndrome (postdiscectomy syndrome) were studied to evaluate the possibility of 1-Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with gadolinium diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) in differentiating post operative scar tissue from recurrent disc herniation. "

01/01/2012 - "A 37-year-old man suffering from failed back surgery syndrome received an ITDAS implantation, and the ITDAS was refilled with morphine every 3 months. "
05/01/2008 - "Severe peripheral edema during an outpatient continuous epidural morphine infusion trial in a patient with failed back surgery syndrome."
01/01/1997 - "Cost-effectiveness of long-term intrathecal morphine therapy for pain associated with failed back surgery syndrome."
03/01/1996 - "A 54-year-old female with chronic failed back surgery syndrome and pain in the back and the right leg was treated by chronic spinal morphine administration by an external pump. "
02/01/2006 - "A 76-year-old man with chronic general pain and failed back surgery syndrome had vomiting and abdominal discomfort two hours after morphine test and had redness and itching on his bilateral forearms the following day. "

07/01/2014 - "[Jiawei shentong zhuyu decoction prevented the occurrence of failed back surgery syndrome and its effect on serum TNF-alpha a clinical study]."
07/01/2014 - "To explore the clinical roles of Jiawei Shentong Zhuyu Decoction (JSZD) in preventing the occurrence of failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), and to observe its effect on serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha). "

01/01/2013 - "The aim of this study is to assess the effect and safety of ozone therapy applied in the epidural space for chronic pain related to failed back surgery syndrome. "
01/01/2013 - "Effects of ozone applied by spinal endoscopy in patients with chronic pain related to failed back surgery syndrome: a pilot study."

02/01/2012 - "Our goal with this review is to summarize the latest research trends and the most advanced therapeutic standards for pain syndromes described in the literature, the discussion will be divided in four main topics, as these topics were treated during the SIMPAR (Study In Multidisciplinary PAin Research) meeting, held on December 2010 in Pavia: pathophysiology of pain, acute postoperative pain, opioids and pain, and chronic pain (Failed Back Surgery Syndrome). "

04/01/2007 - "Preemptive analgesia with lidocaine prevents Failed Back Surgery Syndrome."
04/01/2012 - "Effect of intravenous lidocaine on the neuropathic pain of failed back surgery syndrome."
12/01/2002 - "This retrospective case series examines four patients with pain secondary to spinal degeneration and complications from failed back surgery syndrome, who were prescribed the lidocaine patch as an add-on to their analgesic regimen. "

06/01/1999 - "To evaluate outcome in patients with failed back surgery syndrome treated with nerve root sleeve injections. "
06/01/1999 - "Nerve root sleeve injections in patients with failed back surgery syndrome: a comparison of three solutions."
10/01/2013 - "Epiduroscopy is very useful in the treatment of not only low back pain caused by failed back surgery syndrome, epidural scar or herniated disc but also by chronic refractory low back pain which does not respond to interventional conservative treatment including fluoroscopically-directed epidural steroid injections and percutaneous adhesiolysis. "
06/01/2014 - "There is weak positive evidence that LOA is more effective than conventional caudal epidural steroid injections for failed back surgery syndrome and spinal stenosis, and that LOA is more effective than sham adhesiolysis and conservative management for lumbosacral radiculopathy. "

11/01/2011 - "An analysis of reasons for failed back surgery syndrome and partial results after different types of surgical lumbar nerve root decompression."
04/01/2005 - "But especially because of its lack of superiority over the conventional therapies in the long-term and the risk of development of failed back surgery syndrome, the investigators are forced to develop minimally invasive techniques of disc decompression. "
05/01/1991 - "One hundred two patients with "failed back surgery syndrome" (averaging 2.4 previous operations), who underwent a repeated operation for lumbosacral decompression and/or stabilization, were interviewed by a disinterested third party a mean of 5.05 years postoperatively. "
01/01/2014 - "Endoscopic foraminal decompression for failed back surgery syndrome under local anesthesia."
10/01/2003 - "The present study was designed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of preoperative irradiation in patients with failed-back surgery syndrome due to peridural fibrosis who underwent reexploration and nerve root decompression. "

04/01/2012 - "To investigate the efficacy and the feasibility of application of percutaneous lysis of epidural adhesions in failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) using a stiff type guide wire and 4F vascular catheter. "
09/01/2008 - "A 39-year-old female with a diagnosis of failed back surgery syndrome underwent lysis of epidural adhesions using a Racz catheter. "
01/01/2012 - "Pain relief obtained with spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) has been shown to be more effective with paddle leads than with percutaneous catheters. "
04/01/2006 - "Racz's minimal invasive epidural catheter procedure, also known as "epidural neuroplasty" is not only utilized in patients suffering from failed spine surgery ("failed back surgery syndrome") but also increasingly applied to non-surgical back pain patients to prevent chronification or deterioration. "

11/01/2013 - "Twenty-one patients diagnosed with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) or lumboischialgia were implanted with a small profile plate-type electrode. "
11/01/2005 - "Laminectomy electrode placement, although more invasive than percutaneous placement, yields significantly better clinical results in patients with failed back surgery syndrome at mean 1.9 years follow-up. "
10/01/2012 - "A patient with failed back surgery syndrome reported paresthesia in his hands and arms during a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) screening trial with a low thoracic electrode. "
11/01/2014 - "Spinal cord stimulation is an interventional treatment for chronic pain syndromes such as failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), and it utilizes either cylindrical or paddle electrodes placed percutaneously into the epidural space. "
06/15/2005 - "A prospective, controlled, clinical trial comparing single and dual percutaneous electrodes in the treatment of axial low back pain from failed back surgery syndrome. "

03/01/2003 - "A study was performed to analyze whether local denervation of the medial branch of the dorsal ramus of the lumbar spinal nerve occurs in a patient with postoperative failed-back surgery syndrome/postdiscotomy syndrome (FBSS/PDS). "
01/01/2011 - "An 81-year-old woman with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) was treated using a combination of percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) lumbar zygapophysial joint denervation and epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS). "
01/01/2011 - "Combination therapy of radiofrequency lumbar facet joint denervation and epidural spinal cord stimulation for failed back surgery syndrome."
01/01/2011 - "Conclusions are made about effectiveness of high-frequency denervation of facet joints in patients with failed back surgery syndrome in conditions of their careful selection for this procedure."