Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Clinical Implictions
Published in September 1992
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-3-527-15496-8 (ISBN)
Description
The role of the sympathetic nervous system in generating pain is still controversial. This book is devotes itself to this significant topic. It comprises the proceedings of an international conference of basic and clinical scientists. Comprehensive and well documented, it book may well set a new basis for further clinical management. Moreover, it will give researchers in the field "sympathetic nervous system and pain" new and important impulses for the work.
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Content
Part 1 Clinical aspects: is the reflex sympathetic dystrophy a neurological disease?; clinical and pathophysiological aspects of reflex sympathetic dystrophy and sympathetically maintained pain; the relationship of peripheral trauma to generation of reflex sympathetic dystrophy and involuntary movements; neural mechanisms of sympathetically maintained pain. Part 2 Somatosensory system: pathophysiological properties of afferent fibres after nerve injury and their possible significant to reflex sympathetic dystrophy; somatic sensations and their correlation with activity in afferent neurons; deep somatic afferents and reflex sympathetic dystrophy; amino acids and neuropeptides - possible roles in altered sensory processing in the spinal cord; maladaptive neuronal plasticity and reflex sympathetic dystrophy; dorsal horn plasticity and reflex sympathetic dystrophy; towards animal models for the study of sympathetically maintained pain?. Part 3 Sympathetic nervous system: the final common sympathetic pathways; neurovascular transmission and its distortion after regeneration; possible ways of sympathetic-afferent interactions. Part 4 Target tissue - tropic changes: role of unmyelinated afferents in regulation of microcirculation and its chronic distorsion after trauma and damage; inflammatory and trophic effects of sensory neuropeptides; a neuroimmune sensory-sympathetic link in the pathophysiology and chronic pain cycle of "reflex sympathetic dystrophy" (RSD)?; pathophysiological mechanisms of reflex sympathetic dystrophy.