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Pain in fabry disease: practical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment

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  • Aims: Patients with Fabry disease (FD) characteristically develop peripheral neuropathy at an early age, with pain being a crucial symptom of underlying pathology. However, the diagnosis of pain is challenging due to the heterogeneous and nonspecific symptoms. Practical guidance on the diagnosis and management of pain in FD is needed. Methods: In 2014, experts met to discuss recent advances on this topic and update clinical guidance. Results: Emerging disease-specific tools, including FabryScan, Fabry-specific Pediatric Health andAims: Patients with Fabry disease (FD) characteristically develop peripheral neuropathy at an early age, with pain being a crucial symptom of underlying pathology. However, the diagnosis of pain is challenging due to the heterogeneous and nonspecific symptoms. Practical guidance on the diagnosis and management of pain in FD is needed. Methods: In 2014, experts met to discuss recent advances on this topic and update clinical guidance. Results: Emerging disease-specific tools, including FabryScan, Fabry-specific Pediatric Health and Pain Questionnaire, and Wurzburg Fabry Pain Questionnaire, and more general tools like the Total Symptom Score can aid diagnosis, characterization, and monitoring of pain in patients with FD. These tools can be complemented by more objective and quantifiable sensory testing. In male and female patients of any age, pain related to FD can be an early indication to start disease-specific enzyme replacement therapy before potentially irreversible organ damage to the kidneys, heart, or brain occurs. Conclusion: To improve treatment outcomes, pain should be diagnosed early in unrecognized or newly identified FD patients. Treatment should include: (a) enzyme replacement therapy controlling the progression of underlying pathology; (b) adjunctive, symptomatic pain management with analgesics for chronic neuropathic and acute nociceptive, and inflammatory or mixed pain; and (c) lifestyle modifications.show moreshow less

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Author: Juan M. Politei, Didier Bouhassira, Dominique P. Germain, Cyril Goizet, Antonio Guerrero-Sola, Max J. Hilz, Elspeth J. Hutton, Amel Karaa, Rocco Liuori, Nurcan Üceyler, Lonnie K. Zeltzer, Alessandro Burlina
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-188127
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Medizinische Fakultät / Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik
Language:English
Parent Title (English):CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics
Year of Completion:2016
Volume:22
Issue:7
Pagenumber:568-576
Source:CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics (2016) 22:7, 568-576. https://doi.org/10.1111/cns.12542
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/cns.12542
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Tag:Pain
Adult patients; Agalsidase beta; Chronic neuropathic pain; Diagnosis; Dose reduction; Enzyme replacement therapy; Fabry disease; Outcome survey; Peripheral nervous system; Randomized controlled-trial; Screening questionnaire; Small fiber dysfunction; System involvement
Release Date:2020/06/18
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY-NC-ND: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International