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HYPOTHESIS: For most patients with chronic obstructive pancreatitis, distal pancreatectomy confers pain relief. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. Follow-up was complete in 80% of study subjects (mean follow-up, 6.7 years). SETTING: Tertiary care center. PATIENTS: Among 484 patients with chronic pancreatitis undergoing operation from 1976 to 1997, 40 with postobstructive chronic pancreatitis were identified. Criteria for selection included an isolated, dominant major pancreatic duct stricture or cutoff, changes of chronic pancreatitis in the distal pancreas, and ostensibly normal parenchyma without calcification in the proximal gland.
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Voltaren Gel was shown to significantly reduce pain in hand and knee osteoarthritis, with pain relief sustained through the end of treatment. After six weeks of treatment in an efficacy study of patients with osteoarthritis of the hand, results showed that pain levels were reduced by nearly half (46%). In a 12-week study in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, Voltaren Gel showed a 51% reduction in pain.
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"Synvisc-One provides long-term pain relief for patients without the systemic safety risks associated with traditional OA therapies such as NSAIDs and COX2 inhibitors," stated Xavier Chevalier M.D., Head of Rheumatology, Hopital Henri Mondor, Creteil France. "This is a unique opportunity for physicians to treat patients with a single injection viscosupplement that offers a very good risk-benefit profile."
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Recently announced data from an independent investigator's clinical study found Synvisc to be superior in magnitude and duration of pain relief, functional improvement and patient satisfaction to another viscosupplementation product in treating patients with OA of the knee. These independent data were presented last June at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and ... at the British Orthopaedic Association congress held this month in Glasgow.
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"Visiting several physicians for pain relief should not open a patient's records to virtually unlimited access by the State," Mr. Schlafly argued. "The State violated the law here. Its search warrants should be quashed and their fruits excluded as a result."
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MESA , Ariz. , June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of the Low Level Laser to use for pain relief in patients suffering from chronic and acute pain. The laser, which is used by Lance Armstrong and the U.S. postal team on the Tour de France, has been proven through extensive testing to significantly reduce the level of pain symptomatic with a number of ailments.
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