American Society of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine
Annual Fall Pain Meeting & Workshops

November 13-16, 2003
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
San Diego, CA

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS AND DISCLOSURES

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS

Numbers listed are abstract numbers

A1 Endocannabinoid analgesia in normal and neuropathic rats

Lalot M¹, Vandevoorde S², Lambert D², De Kock M¹, Lavand’homme P¹

¹St Luc Hospital - UCL, ²UCL, Brussels, Belgium

A2 Levetiracetam in the management of lumbar radiculopathy

Hamza M, Grubb C

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

A3 The distribution characteristics of fluoroscopically guided epidural steroid injections: A comparison of transforaminal and interlaminar approaches and two different volumes

Buenaventura R, McSweeney T, Singstock B, Schulte G, Bourekas E, Severyn S, Benedetti C

The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

A4 Morphine prolongs analgesic effects of ketamine in models of visceral nociception

Ness T, Uzzel T

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

A5 Pulsed Radiofrequency Neurotomy (PRFN) registry: Efficacy and safety - short term data

Ahadian F, Braun J

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

A6 Cross tolerance between spinal neostigmine and morphine in the rat

Yeatman A, Yeatman D, Karamian I, Dunbar S

Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA, USA

A7 A phase II, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study of CJC-1008, A long-acting, parenteral, opioid analgesic, in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia

Wallace M¹, Moulin D², Clark A³, Wasserman R⁴, Morley-Forster P⁵, Neale A⁶, Castaigne J⁷, Teichman S⁶

¹University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; ²London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada; ³Qeii Health Sciences Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ⁵University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; ⁶WinPharm Associates, LLC, San Ramon, California, USA; ⁷ConjuChem, Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

A8 Function of a-delta and c fiber nociceptors in diabetic monkeys

Lu Y¹, Laurito C¹, Rice F², Tigno X³, Hansen B³

¹University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA; ²Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA; ³University of Maryland, Baltimore, MA, USA

A9 Decreased tissue ph caused by gastrocnemius muscle incision in the rat

Woo Y, Park S, Brennan T

University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, IA, USA

A10 Spinal ketorolac combined with intrathecal analgesics to manage intractable cancer pain

Lalot M, le Polain B, Lavand’homme P

St Luc Hospital - UCL, Brussels, Belgium

A11 Spread of the contrast during caudal injection in elderly patients with spinal stenosis

Vassilliev D¹, Abdel Massieh N²

¹Ohio Valley General Hospital, MaKees Rocks, PA, USA; ²The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A12 Management of chronic testicular pain with superior hypogastric plexus block

Hamza M, Wright T

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

A13 A case-matching study of the analgesic properties of electroconvulsive therapy controlling for treatment of depression

Wasan A

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

A14 Nucleoplasty in the treatment of lumbar herniated disk: A pilot study

Cohen S¹, Larkin T², Williams S², Kurihara C², Griffith S²

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ²Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

A15 Patient entrance skin radiation dose during three most common fluoroscopy-guided pain procedures

Vassiliev D, Blackwood M, Kincel D

The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A16 Intradiscal Thermal Annuloplasty (IDTA) for the treatment of discogenic pain in patients with multilevel degenerative disc disease

Kapural L, Mekhail N, Korunda Z, Elezovic N

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

A17 Treatment of chronic low back pain with selective nerve stimulation

Heres E, Mnuskin D

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A18 Efficacy of lumbar sympathetic blockade in the management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

Saxena S, Derbyshire S, Bernstein C, Rizk N, Cope D

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A19 Topical anesthetics for procedure related dermal pain

Eidelman A¹, Carr D²

¹St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Tufts, Brighton, MA, USA; ²New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

A20 Inferior epigastric artery erosion: A rare complication of intrathecal drug delivery system

Narouze S¹, Yonan S², Malak O²

¹Aultman Hospital, Canton, OH, USA; ²The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

A21 Predictors of postoperative analgesic requirement after major lower extremity amputations

Subramaniam K, Park KW, Holt E

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

A22 The effect of methadone on QTC intervals in a retrospective study of chronic pain patients

Yeatman D, Yeatman A, McKee A

Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA, USA

A23 Saphenous nerve block: A novel therapy for acute gouty arthritis

Grubb C, Ting P

University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA

A24 Thoracic epidural analgesia: Influences on time to first experience of pain

McLeod G

Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland

A25 Thoracic epidural analgesia: Influences on time to first experience of pain relief and pain following epidural rescue bolus

McLeod G

Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland

A26 Ketamine added to opioid analgesia: A quantitative and qualitative systematic review of controlled clinical trials

Subramaniam K, Subramaniam B, Steinbrook R

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

A27 Body temperature changes with high and low concentrations of ropivacaine used for labor analgesia

Ramanathan S

Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A28 Observation of the therapeutic effect of pagosid on prostatodynia

Yu W, Zhao X, Wang H

The Traditional Medicine Hospital, LongKou, Shandong, China

A29 The status of pain physicians in Ohio

Buenaventura R, McSweeney T, Cook III H, Severyn S, Benedetti C, Gravlee G

The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

A30 Botulinum neurotoxin type a (bont-a) for relief of chronic low back pain

Dunteman E

A&A Pain Institute of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

A31 The effect of the sciatic nerve ligature and evaluation of the functionality using the PIFIR model in wistar rats.

Tamayo A¹, Guevara U¹, López Muñoz F²

¹Instituto Nacional De Ciencias Médicas Y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico; ²Centro De Investigación Y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City, Mexico

A32 Computed tomography guide for trigeminal alcohol neurolysis

Whizar-Lugo V¹, Anzorena-Vallarino F¹, Cisneros-Corral R¹, Valdez-Jeres R², Hernández-Velazco R¹

¹Centro Médico Del Noroeste, Tijuana, BC, Mexico; ²Imaxes, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

A33 Transforaminal epidural steroid injection: A one-year follow-up

Rahimova G, Rahimov A

Samarkand Medical Institute, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

A34 Alkalinization and precipitation characteristics of levobupivacaine

Munir M¹, Ross E¹, Bowen T², Zhang J²

¹Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; ²University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

A35 Efficacy evaluation of the lumbar sympathetic block on treatment of complex regional pain syndrome-retrospective study of 46 cases

Marques C, Coelho V, Vieira V, Vilhena R

Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra, Portugal

A36 Intrinsic spinal cord catheter placement: Implications of new intractable pain in spinal cord injured patients

Hurdle M, Huntoon M, Marsh R, Reeves R

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

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