Spinal Cord Stimulation in Pregnant Patients : Current Perspectives of Indications, Complications, and Results in Pain Control: A Systematic Review

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been described as a valuable neuromodulator procedure in the management of chronic medically untreated neuropathic pain. Although the use of this technique has been published in many papers, a question still remains regarding its applicability in pregnant patients. The goal of this paper is to discuss the risks, complications, and results as well as the prognosis of SCS in pregnant patients. We performed a systematic review from 1967 to 2018 using the databases MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, PubMed, and BIREME, utilizing language as selection criteria. Eighteen studies that met our criteria were found and tabulated. SCS is a reversible and adjustable surgical procedure, which results in patients that demonstrated a significant effect in the reduction of pain intensity in pregnant patients. The etiologies most frequent were complex regional pain and failed back pain syndromes, which together represented 94% of analyzed cases. The technical complications most frequent were lead migration (3%, n = 1). Regarding the risks, the authors did not show significative factors among the categorical variables that can suggest a teratogenicity, while the maternal risks have been associated to the consequences of technical complications due to, among other factors, improvement of abdominal pressure during pregnancy and delivery. Finally, although there are not significative cohorts of pregnant patients, the procedure is still an effective surgical approach of neuropathic pain associated to lower rates of complications and significative improvement in the quality of life of patients during pregnancy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Asian journal of neurosurgery - 14(2019), 2 vom: 14. Apr., Seite 343-355

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Camporeze, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
Simm, Renata [VerfasserIn]
Maldaun, Marcos Vinícius Calfat [VerfasserIn]
Pires de Aguiar, Paulo Henrique [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Neuropathic pain
Pain management
Pregnancy
Review
Spinal cord stimulation

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Date Revised 01.10.2020

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/ajns.AJNS_7_18

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM297611119