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1. Intentional Intrathecal Opioid Detoxification in 3 Patients: Characterization of the Intrathecal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome

Author

Tracy Jackson, Peter R. Martin, Daniel F. Lonergan, and R. David Todd

Subjects
business.industry, Nausea, Clonidine, Discontinuation, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Opioid, Anesthesia, Hyperalgesia, Vomiting, Medicine, Chills, medicine.symptom, business, medicine.drug, Buprenorphine
Abstract

Objective: Intrathecal (IT) drug delivery systems for patients with chronic non-malignant pain are intended to improve pain and quality of life and reduce side effects of systemic use. A subset of patients may have escalating pain, functional decline, and/or intolerable side effects even as IT opioid doses are increased. Discontinuation of IT medications may represent a viable treatment option but strategies to accomplish this are needed. Subjects and Interventions: Three patients with intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS), inadequate pain control, and declining functionality underwent abrupt IT opioid cessation. This was accomplished through a standardized protocol with symptom-triggered administration of clonidine and buprenorphine, monitored using the clinical opiate withdrawal scale. Results: Symptoms of IT withdrawal were similar in all patients and included diuresis, agitation, hyperalgesia, mild diarrhea, yawning, and taste and smell aversion. Hypertension and tachycardia were effectively controlled by clonidine administration. Classic symptoms of withdrawal, such as piloerection, chills, severe diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, diaphoresis, myoclonus, and mydriasis, were not noted. At 2 to 3 months follow-up, patients reported decreased, but ongoing pain, with improvements in functional capacity and quality of life. Conclusions: This preliminary work demonstrates the safety of abrupt IT opioid cessation utilizing standardized inpatient withdrawal protocols. To our knowledge, these are among the first reported cases of intentional, controlled IT opioid cessation without initiation of an opioid bridge: self-reported pain scores, functional capacity, and quality of life improved. The IT opioid withdrawal syndrome is characterized based upon our observations and a review of the literature.

Published
2012

2. Intentional intrathecal opioid detoxification in 3 patients: characterization of the intrathecal opioid withdrawal syndrome

Author

Tracy P, Jackson, Daniel F, Lonergan, R David, Todd, and Peter R, Martin

Subjects
Aged, 80 and over, Male, Middle Aged, Severity of Illness Index, Clonidine, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Analgesics, Opioid, Inactivation, Metabolic, Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists, Quality of Life, Humans, Female, Chronic Pain, Injections, Spinal, Aged, Follow-Up Studies, Pain Measurement
Abstract

Intrathecal (IT) drug delivery systems for patients with chronic non-malignant pain are intended to improve pain and quality of life and reduce side effects of systemic use. A subset of patients may have escalating pain, functional decline, and/or intolerable side effects even as IT opioid doses are increased. Discontinuation of IT medications may represent a viable treatment option but strategies to accomplish this are needed.Three patients with intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS), inadequate pain control, and declining functionality underwent abrupt IT opioid cessation. This was accomplished through a standardized protocol with symptom-triggered administration of clonidine and buprenorphine, monitored using the clinical opiate withdrawal scale.Symptoms of IT withdrawal were similar in all patients and included diuresis, agitation, hyperalgesia, mild diarrhea, yawning, and taste and smell aversion. Hypertension and tachycardia were effectively controlled by clonidine administration. Classic symptoms of withdrawal, such as piloerection, chills, severe diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, diaphoresis, myoclonus, and mydriasis, were not noted. At 2 to 3 months follow-up, patients reported decreased, but ongoing pain, with improvements in functional capacity and quality of life.This preliminary work demonstrates the safety of abrupt IT opioid cessation utilizing standardized inpatient withdrawal protocols. To our knowledge, these are among the first reported cases of intentional, controlled IT opioid cessation without initiation of an opioid bridge: self-reported pain scores, functional capacity, and quality of life improved. The IT opioid withdrawal syndrome is characterized based upon our observations and a review of the literature.

Published
2012

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Sanjib Adhikary, Jorge Aguilar, Charles Ahere, Moustafa Ahmed, Jane C. Ahn, Shamsuddin Akhtar, David B. Albert, Nasrin N. Aldawoodi, John T. Algren, Gracie Almeida-Chen, David Amar, Zirka H. Anastasian, Stephen Aniskevich, Solomon Aronson, Harendra Arora, Amit Asopa, Joshua H. Atkins, John G. Augoustides, Mohammad Fareed Azam, Catherine R. Bachman, Douglas R. Bacon, Andrew D. Badley, Emily Baird, Alethia Baldwin, Ryan Ball, Amir Baluch, David Bandola, Shawn Banks, Paul G. Barash, Kathleen E. Barrett, Shawn T. Beaman, Jonathan C. Beathe, Christopher D. Beatie, W. Scott Beattie, Perry S. Bechtle, G. Richard Benzinger, Lauren Berkow, Jeffrey M. Berman, Wendy K. Bernstein, Arnold J. Berry, Frederic Berry, Ulrike Berth, Walter Bethune, Sumita Bhambhani, Shobana Bharadwaj, Neil Bhatt, Frederic T. Billings, Wendy B. Binstock, David J. Birnbach, Michael Bishop, Stephanie Black, Mary A. Blanchette, James M. Blum, Krishna Boddu, Lara Bonasera, Richard L. Boortz-Marx, Cecil O. Borel, Gregory H. Botz, Charles D. Boucek, William Bradford, Jason C. Brainard, Michelle Braunfeld, Ferne R. Braveman, Caridad Bravo-Fernandez, Peter H. Breen, Marjorie Brennan, Tricia Brentjens, Megan A. Brockel, Jay B. Brodsky, Todd A. Bromberg, Adam J. Broussard, Chris Broussard, Carmen Labrie-Brown, Robert H. Brown, Charles S. Brudney, Sorin J. Brull, Claude Brunson, Trent Bryson, Jacob M. Buchowski, Stefan Budac, Zachary D. Bush, John Butterworth, Lisbeysi Calo, Christopher Canlas, Ayana Cannon, Shawn M. Cantie, Lisa Caplan, Marco Caruso, Davide Cattano, Charles B. Cauldwell, Laura Cavallone, Maurizio Cereda, Thomas M. Chalifoux, Susan Chan, Theodore G. Cheek, Alexander Chen, Samuel A. Cherry, Albert T. Cheung, Grace L. Chien, Peter T. Choi, Christopher Ciarallo, Franklyn Cladis, Anthony J. Clapcich, Richard B. Clark, Mindy Cohen, Neal H. Cohen, Robert I. Cohen, Stephan J. Cohn, Aisling Conran, Richard I. Cook, Randall F. Coombs, David M. Corda, Daniel Cormican, Darren Cousin, Vincent S. Cowell, Lyndsey Cox, Paula A. Craigo, Richard C. Cross, Roy F. Cucchiara, William H. Daily, Gaurang Dalal, Priti Dalal, Michael Danekas, Ahmed M. Darwish, Ribal Darwish, Suanne M. Daves, Kathleen Davis, Peter J. Davis, Bracken J. De Witt, Ellise Delphin, Seema Deshpande, Dawn P. Desiderio, Tricia Desvarieux, Laura K. Diaz, Christian Diez, Sanjay Dixit, Meenakshi Dogra, Karen B. Domino, Kathryn Dorhauer, Todd Dorman, Don D. Doussan, James Duke, Ann C. Duncan, Frank W. Dupont, Andrew Dziewit, L. Jane Easdown, R. Blaine Easley, Thomas J. Ebert, David M. Eckmann, Talmage D. Egan, Seth Eisdorfer, Nabil M. Elkassabany, Ryan P. Ellender, Logan S. Emory, Monique Espinosa, Lucinda L. Everett, Nauder Faraday, James J. Fehr, James M. Feld, Lynn A. Fenton, Laura H. Ferguson, Matthew Fiegel, Aaron M. Fields, Gordon N. Finlayson, Alan Finley, Gregory W. Fischer, Gary Fiskum, Molly Fitzpatrick, Russell Flatto, Lee A. Fleisher, Ronda Flower, Annette G. Folgueras, Patrick J. Forte, Joseph F. Foss, Charles J. Fox, William R. Furman, Robert Gaiser, David R. Gambling, Scott Gardiner, Matthew L. Garvey, Abraham C. Gaupp, Steven Gayer, Jeremy M. Geiduschek, Frank Gencorelli, Eric Gewirtz, Ghaleb A. Ghani, Charles P. Gibbs, Jeremy L. Gibson, Lori Gilbert, Kevin J. Gingrich, Gregory Ginsburg, Christopher Giordano, Christine E. Goepfert, Hernando Gomez, Santiago Gomez, Alanna E. Goodman, Stephanie R. Goodman, Alexandru Gottlieb, Ori Gottlieb, Allan Gottschalk, Basavana Gouda Goudra, Harry J. Gould, Nikolaus Gravenstein, Megan Graybill, William J. Greeley, Patrick Guffey, Ala Sami Haddadin, John G. Hagen, Karim Abdel Hakim, Michael Hall, N. James Halliday, Raafat S. Hannallah, Jeremy Hansen, C. William Hanson, Charles B. Hantler, Andrew P. Harris, Jonathan Hastie, Henry A. Hawney, Stephen O. Heard, James E. Heavner, James G. Hecker, Elizabeth A. Hein, Eugenie Heitmiller, Mark Helfaer, Lori B. Heller, Andrew Hemphill, Adrian Hendrickse, Frederick A. Hensley, Ian A. Herrick, Douglas Hester, Eric J. Heyer, Michael S. Higgins, Roberta Hines, Charles W. Hogue, Kenneth J. Holroyd, Natalie F. Holt, Simon J. Howell, Faisal Huda, Keith E. Hude, Hayden R. Hughes, James M. Hunter, Brad J. Hymel, James W. Ibinson, Karen E. Iles, Robert M. Insoft, Shiroh Isono, Yulia Ivashkov, Bozena R. Jachna, Anna Jankowska, Norah Janosy, Arun L. Jayaraman, Nathalia Jimenez, Judy G. Johnson, Lyndia Jones, Edmund H. Jooste, Zeev N. Kain, Maudy Kalangie, Philip L. Kalarickal, Ihab Kamel, Mia Kang, Ivan Kangrga, Ravish Kapoor, Helen W. Karl, Christopher Karsanac, Swaminathan Karthik, Jeffrey A. Katz, Alan Kaye, Adam M. Kaye, A. Murat Kaynar, Nancy B. Kenepp, Miklos D. Kertai, Mary A. Keyes, Sarah Khan, Swapnil Khoche, David Y. Kim, Jerry H. Kim, Kimberly M. King, Jeffrey Kirsch, Matthew A. Klopman, Paul R. Knight, Donald D. Koblin, W. Andrew Kofke, Vincent J. Kopp, Joseph R. Koveleskie, Courtney Kowalczyk, Valeriy V. Kozmenko, Kaylyn Krummen, Sapna R. Kudchadkar, Nathan Kudrick, Adrienne Kung, C. Dean Kurth, Robert Kyle, J. Lance LaFleur, Jason G. Lai, Kirk Lalwani, William L. Lanier, Dawn M. Larson, Richard M. Layman, Chris C. Lee, Mark J. Lema, W. Casey Lenox, Jacqueline M. Leung, Roy C. Levitt, Jerrold H. Levy, J. Lance Lichtor, Charles Lin, Sharon L. Lin, Karen S. Lindeman, Lesley Lirette, Ronald S. Litman, Qianjin Liu, Renyu Liu, Wen-Shin Liu, Justin Lockman, Stanley L. Loftness, Martin J. London, Philip D. Lumb, M. Concetta Lupa, Anne Marie Lynn, Devi Mahendran, Jeffrey Mako, Anuj Malhotra, Vinod Malhotra, Andrew M. Malinow, Mark G. Mandabach, Dennis T. Mangano, Sobia Mansoor, Inna Maranets, Jonathan B. Mark, Sinisa Markovic, H. Michael Marsh, Choendal Martin, Nicole D. Martin, Douglas Martz, Veronica A. Matei, Letha Mathews, Lynne G. Maxwell, Philip McArdle, John P. McCarren, Brenda C. McClain, Brian McClure, William A. McDade, Kathryn E. McGoldrick, Brian J. McGrath, Gregory L. McHugh, David McIlroy, Jason McKeown, Thomas M. McLoughlin, R. Yan McRae, William L. Meadow, Sameer Menda, William T. Merritt, David G. Metro, Berend Mets, Hosni Mikhaeil, David W. Miller, Jessica Miller, Mohammed Minhaj, Marek A. Mirski, Nanhi Mitter, Alexander J.C. Mittnacht, Raj K. Modak, Pierre Moine, Constance L. Monitto, Richard C. Month, Richard E. Moon, Laurel E. Moore, Roger A. Moore, Thomas A. Moore, Debra E. Morrison, Jonathan Moss, John R. Moyers, Jesse J. Muir, Adam J. Munson-Young, Stanley Muravchick, John M. Murkin, Peter Nagele, Peter A. Nagi, Daniel A. Nahrwold, Michael L. Nahrwold, Madhavi Naik, Manchula Navaratnam, Stephan P. Nebbia, Priscilla Nelson, Thai T. Nguyen, Viet Nguyen, Stavroula Nikolaidis, Zoulfira Nisnevitch, Dolores B. Njoku, Mary J. Njoku, Edward J. Norris, Omonele O. Nwokolo, Daniel Nyhan, William T. O'Byrne, Edward A. Ochroch, Andrew Oken, Nathan Orgain, Nancy E. Oriol, Pedro Orozco, Andreas M. Ostermeier, Andranik Ovassapian, Mehmet S. Ozcan, Ira Padnos, Sheela S. Pai, Nirvik Pal, Dhamodaran Palaniappan, Susan K. Palmer, Howard D. Palte, Wei Pan, Oliver Panzer, Sibi Pappachan, Anthony Passannante, Dennis A. Patel, Dilipkumar K. Patel, Kirit M. Patel, Samir Patel, Shalin Patel, Sanup Pathak, Minda L. Patt, Ronald W. Pauldine, Olga Pawelek, Tim Pawelek, Kiarash Paydar, Ronald G. Pearl, Christine Peeters-Asdourian, Padmavathi R. Perela, Charise T. Petrovitch, Patricia H. Petrozza, Dennis Phillips, Mark C. Phillips, Christine Piefer, Edgar J. Pierre, S. William Pinson, Evan G. Pivalizza, Raymond M. Planinsic, Don Poldermans, Joel M. Pomerantz, Jason E. Pope, Wanda M. Popescu, Vivian H. Porche, Jahan Porhomayon, Dmitry Portnoy, Corinne K. Postle, Paul J. Primeaux, Donald S. Prough, Ferenc Puskas, Carlos A. Puyo, Forrest Quiggle, Mary Rabb, Bronwyn R. Rae, Muhammad B. Rafique, Jesse M. Raiten, Arvind Rajagopal, Srinivasan Rajagopal, Gaurav Rajpal, Chandra Ramamoorthy, Ira J. Rampil, James G. Ramsay, James A. Ramsey, Vidya N. Rao, Joana Ratsiu, Selina Read, Ronjeet Reddy, Leila L. Reduque, David L. Reich, Karene Ricketts, Cameron Ricks, Bernhard Riedel, Jyotsna Rimal, Joseph Rinehart, James M. Riopelle, Stacey A. Rizza, Amy C. Robertson, Stephen Robinson, Peter Rock, Yillam F. Rodriguez-Blanco, Michael F. Roizen, Daniel M. Roke, Ryan Romeo, Joseph Rosa, David A. Rosen, Kathleen Rosen, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Andrew D. Rosenberg, Andrew L. Rosenberg, Henry Rosenberg, Meg A. Rosenblatt, Steven Roth, Brian Rothman, Justin L. Rountree, Matthew J. Rowan, Marc Rozner, Ryan Rubin, Stephen M. Rupp, W. John Russell, Thomas A. Russo, Alecia L. Sabartinelli, Tetsuro Sakai, Orlando J. Salinas, Paul L. Samm, Jibin Samuel, Tor Sandven, Ted J. Sanford, Joshua W. Sappenfield, Ponnusamy Saravanan, Subramanian Sathishkumar, R. Alexander Schlichter, Eric Schnell, David L. Schreibman, Armin Schubert, Peter Schulman, Todd A. Schultz, Alan Jay Schwartz, Jamie McElrath Schwartz, Jeffrey J. Schwartz, Benjamin K. Scott, Joseph L. Seltzer, Tamas Seres, Daniel I. Sessler, Navil F. Sethna, Amar Setty, Paul W. Shabaz, Pranav Shah, Saroj Mukesh Shah, Milad Sharifpour, Joanne Shay, Jay Shepherd, Jeffrey S. Shiffrin, Marina Shindell, Daniel Siker, Richard Silverman, Brett A. Simon, Nina Singh, Ashish C. Sinha, Robert N. Sladen, Kieran A. Slevin, Tod B. Sloan, Kathleen Smith, Timothy E. Smith, Victoria Smoot, Denis Snegovskikh, Betsy Ellen Soifer, Molly Solorzano, James M. Sonner, Aris Sophocles, James A. Sparrow, Joan Spiegel, Bruce D. Spiess, Ramprasad Sripada, Stanley W. Stead, Joshua D. Stearns, Kelly Stees, Clinton Steffey, Christopher Stemland, John Stene, Christopher T. Stephens, Tracey L. Stierer, O. Jameson Stokes, Bryant W. Stolp, David F. Stowe, Ted Strickland, Suzanne Strom, Erin A. Sullivan, Michele Sumler, Dajin Sun, Lena Sun, Esther Sung, Veronica C. Swanson, Judit Szolnoki, Joe Talarico, Gee Mei Tan, Darryl T. Tang, Paul Tarasi, René Tempelhoff, John E. Tetzlaff, Alisa C. Thorne, Arlyne Thung, Vasanti Tilak, Kate Tobin, Joseph R. Tobin, Michael J. Tobin, R. David Todd, Matthew Tomlinson, Thomas J. Toung, Lien B. Tran, Minh Chau Joe Tran, Kevin K. Tremper, Sanyo Tsai, George S. Tseng, Kenneth J. Tuman, Avery Tung, Cynthia Tung, Rebecca Twersky, Mark Twite, John A. Ulatowski, Michael Urban, Manuel C. Vallejo, Andrea Vannucci, Albert J. Varon, Anasuya Vasudevan, Susheela Viswanathan, Alexander A. Vitin, Wolfgang Voelckel, Ann Walia, Russell T. Wall, Terrence Wallace, Shu-Ming Wang, David C. Warltier, Lucy Waskell, Scott Watkins, Denise Wedel, Stuart J. Weiss, Charles Weissman, Nathaen Weitzel, Gregory Weller, Gina Whitney, Robert A. Whittington, Danny Wilkerson, Nancy C. Wilkes, Michael Williams, Jimmy Windsor, Bernard Wittels, Gregory A. Wolff, Andrew K. Wong, Stacie N. Woods, A.J. Wright, Zheng Xie, Christopher C. Young, Ian Yuan, Francine S. Yudkowitz, James R. Zaidan, Paul Zanaboni, Warren M. Zapol, Angela Zimmerman, and Maurice S. Zwass

Published
2011

5. Incidence and predictors of appendiceal tumors in elderly males presenting with signs and symptoms of acute appendicitis

Author

R. David Todd, Fiemu E. Nwariaku, Thomas Anthony, and George A. Sarosi

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Population, Hematocrit, Risk Assessment, Cohort Studies, Diagnosis, Differential, Age Distribution, Predictive Value of Tests, Internal medicine, medicine, Appendectomy, Humans, education, Survival rate, Geriatric Assessment, Colectomy, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Abdomen, Acute, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Incidence, Biopsy, Needle, Retrospective cohort study, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Appendicitis, Immunohistochemistry, Surgery, Survival Rate, Treatment Outcome, Appendiceal Neoplasms, Predictive value of tests, Acute Disease, business, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract

Background Patients with appendiceal tumors (AT) frequently present with the same signs and symptoms as acute appendicitis (AA). The purpose of this study was to identify the incidence of AT in a population of patients greater than 60 years of age thought to have AA, and to identify presenting factors that can help differentiate the 2 disease processes. Methods An institutional review board–approved, retrospective review was performed identifying all patients greater than 60 years old who underwent either appendectomy or colectomy after presenting with signs and symptoms of AA from Janaury 1997 to April 2004. Patient records were examined for demographic variables, presenting signs and symptoms, and pathology. Results A total of 34 patients fit the entry criteria; 8 (24%) had AT. Average duration of symptoms was significantly longer (4.9 ± 1.9 versus 2.3 ± 0.3 days; P = 0.01) and hematocrit lower (36.5 ± 2.3 versus 42.4 ± 1.0%; P = 0.01) for patients with AT compared with patients with AP. No other significant differences in presenting signs and symptoms were noted. Conclusions There is an increased incidence of appendiceal neoplasms among elderly patients presenting with signs and symptoms of AA. Distinction between AT and appendicitis is difficult preoperatively, but AT should be suspected when patients present with longer duration of symptoms or reduced hematocrit.

Published
2004

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