Comparison of pain models to detect opioid-induced hyperalgesia.

Journal of Pain Research
Sumithra KrishnanPaul Rolan

Abstract

Chronic opioid therapy may be associated with hyperalgesia. Our objective was to determine if opioid-induced hyperalgesia detection sensitivity is dependent on the stimulus used to detect it. This open design study compared the detection of hyperalgesia in opioid-dependent subjects (n = 16) and healthy control subjects (n = 16) using the following pain stimuli: cold pain, electrical stimulation, mechanical pressure, and ischemic pain. The opioid-dependent subjects were maintained on either methadone (n = 8) or buprenorphine (n = 8) for at least 3 months. None of the controls was dependent on opioids or other drugs of abuse. The opioid-dependent subjects were markedly more sensitive than controls to the cold pain test. Compared with the control group, the hazard ratio for ceasing the test due to intolerable pain was 7.7 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.6-23.3) in the buprenorphine group and 4.5 (95% CI 1.7-15.6) in the methadone group, with similar data for the cold pain threshold. Of the remaining tests, there were differences only for the electrical pain threshold between treatment groups, with the geometric mean threshold in the buprenorphine group being 1.5 (95% CI 1.1-1.9)-fold higher (ie, less sensitive) than that of the co...Continue Reading

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Feb 13, 2014·Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine·Nicole M SumrackiPaul Rolan
Nov 8, 2014·Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine·Yi ZhangLucy Chen
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