Pathways involved in thalamic ventrobasal stimulation for pain relief: evidence against the hypothesis VB stimulation -> rostroventral medulla excitation -> dorsal horn inhibition
| العنوان: | Pathways involved in thalamic ventrobasal stimulation for pain relief: evidence against the hypothesis VB stimulation -> rostroventral medulla excitation -> dorsal horn inhibition |
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| المؤلفون: | Osvaldo Vilela Filho, Ronald R. Tasker |
| المصدر: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 386-391, Published: SEP 1994 Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 52, Iss 3, Pp 386-391 (1994) Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria v.52 n.3 1994 Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria Academia Brasileira de Neurologia instacron:ABNEURO |
| بيانات النشر: | Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 1994. |
| سنة النشر: | 1994 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Central Nervous System, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Deep brain stimulation, Cord, medicine.medical_treatment, Thalamus, Pain, Stimulation, Electric Stimulation Therapy, Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, Serotonergic, estereotaxia, lcsh:RC321-571, tálamo, thalamus, medicine, Humans, Pain Management, estimulação elétrica, pain, lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Medulla, business.industry, núcleos talâmicos, analgesia, Middle Aged, Electrodes, Implanted, Neurology, Anesthesia, Neurology (clinical), Neurosurgery, thalamic nuclei, stereotaxis, dor, business, electrical stimulation therapy |
| الوصف: | Despite its use for a long time, the way thalamic ventrobasal (VB) stimulation acts to produce pain relief is still unknown. One of the most accepted hypotheses, sponsored by Tsubokawa among others, proposes that VB stimulation excites raphespinal and reticulospinal neurons of the rostroventral medulla which in turn send respectively inhibitory serotonergic and noradrenergic axons through both dorsolateral funiculi (DLF) to the dorsal horn ( DH) nociceptive neurons; this pathway would be the same as is involved in periventricular-periaqueductal gray (PVG-PAG) stimulation induced inhibition of DH nociceptive neurons. This hypothesis implicates the necessity of DLF intactness; in fact, it was showed that section of bilateral DLF inhibits the response of DH nociceptive neurons to VB stimulation. If the above mentioned hypothesis is correct, one could expect that unilateral VB stimulation would produce bilateral pain relief, VB and PVG stimulation would be useful for treating the same modalities of pain and that in patients with central cord-based pain harboring complete cord transection, VB stimulation would not work at all. In order to check these possibilities, the patiens with central cord-based pain admitted to the Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Hospital between June 1978 and July 1991 to undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS) were reviewed. Sixteen patients were operated on. Based on clinical criteria, four out of these sixteen patients were thought to present complet cord transection (all four were men, with an average age of 48 years and pain secondary to cord injury). The effectiveness of the procedure was evaluated in this subset of patients: 75% of them enjoyed excellent pain relief with VB stimulation; PVG stimulation, however, performed in three out of these four patients, did not produce pain relief. Besides, our clinical experience has demonstrated that VB stimulation is effective in treating only contralateral pain.These results, as well as certain experimental data provided by a review of the literature, seem to provide evidence enough to contest Tsubokawa's hypothesis. A despeito de seu uso há longo tempo, a maneira pela qual a estimulação talâmica ventrobasal (VB) produz alívio da dor é ainda desconhecida. Segundo uma das hipóteses mais aceitas, defendida por Tsubokawa dentre outros, a estimulação de VB excita neurônios rafe-espinhais e reticulo-espinhais do bulbo rostroventral, os quais por sua vez emitem respectivamente axônios serotoninérgicos e noradrenérgicos inibitórios para os neurônios nociceptivos de ambos os cornos dorsais através dos funículos dorsolaterais da medula espinhal; essa via é a mesma proposta para a inibição dos neurônios nociceptivos dos cornos dorsais pela estimulação da substância cinzenta periventricular-periaquedutal (PVG-PAG). Tal hipótese, obviamente, subentende a necessidade da integridade dos funículos dorsolaterais da medula; de fato, já foi demonstrado que a secção desses funículos inibe a resposta dos neurônios nociceptivos dos cornos dorsais à estimulação de VB. Se a hipótese mencionada for correta, poder-se-á esperar que: (1) a estimulação unilateral de VB produza alívio bilateral da dor; (2) a estimulação de VB e PVG-PAG sejam úteis para tratar as mesmas modalidades de dor; (3) a estimulação de VB seja ineficaz em pacientes com secção medular completa apresentando dor central de origem medular. Para se avaliar essas possibilidades, foram revistos os pacientes com dor central de origem medular admitidos à Divisão de Neurocirurgia do Toronto Hospital entre junho 1978 e julho 1991 para serem submetidos à estimulação cerebral profunda. Dezesseis pacientes foram operados nesse período, quatro dos quais apresentavam lesão medular completa, segundo critérios clínicos. Todos eram homens, com média de idade de 48 anos e com dor secundária a traumatismo raquimedular. A eficácia da estimulação cerebral profunda foi avaliada nesse subgrupo de pacientes: 75% deles (3 dentre 4) apresentaram excelente alívio da dor à estimulação de VB; a estimulação de PVG, porém, realizada em três desses quatro pacientes, foi ineficaz em todos eles. Além disso, a experiência clínica tem demonstrado que a estimulação unilateral de VB só é eficaz para o tratamento de dor contralateral. Esses resultados, bem como certos achados experimentais fornecidos pela revisão da literatura, parecem prover evidência suficiente para contestar a hipótese de Tsubokawa. |
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