Chronic postoperative pain syndrome and its neuropathic component in long-term period of coronary artery bypass grafting
Konstantin V. Paromov,
Dmitriy A. Volkov,
Dmitrii A. Svirskii
et al.
Abstract:Background: Along with increased safety and quality of the early postoperative period, 6.9% of patients who undergo sternotomy experience chronic pain at the surgical site. The significance of this issue is underestimated, with a third of these patients developing a neuropathic component of chronic pain syndrome.
Aim: To assess the severity of acute and chronic postoperative pain following sternotomy and to identify predictors of the neuropathic component of chronic pain syndrome.
Materials and methods: Out … Show more
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