Vecchio Michele, Chiaramonte Rita, Romano Marcello, Pavone Piero, Musumeci Giuseppe, Mauro Giulia Letizia
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Rehabilitation Unit, "AOU Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele", 95123 Catania, Italy.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2020 Nov 28;10(12):1022. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10121022.
The aim of this systematic review is to guide the physician in defining the pharmacologic and rehabilitative therapeutic approaches for adopting the best strategies described in the current literature. The search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and Web of Science to identify the treatment of small fiber neuropathies. Two reviewers independently reviewed and came to a consensus on which articles met inclusion/exclusion criteria. The authors excluded the duplicates, animal studies and included the English articles in which the treatment of patients with small fiber neuropathies was described. The search identified a total of 975 articles with the keywords "small fiber neuropathy" AND "rehabilitation" OR "therapy" OR "treatment". Seventy-eight selected full-text were analyzed by the reviewers. Forty-two publications met the inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review to describe the rehabilitative and pharmacologic treatment of small fiber neuropathies. Despite the range of different protocols of treatment for small fiber neuropathy, other robust trials are needed. In addition, always different therapeutic approaches are used; a unique protocol could be important for the clinicians. More research is needed to build evidence for the best strategy and to delineate a definitive therapeutic protocol.
本系统评价的目的是指导医生确定药物和康复治疗方法,以采用当前文献中描述的最佳策略。检索了PubMed、EMBASE、Cochrane图书馆和科学网,以确定小纤维神经病的治疗方法。两名审稿人独立进行评审,并就哪些文章符合纳入/排除标准达成共识。作者排除了重复项、动物研究,并纳入了描述小纤维神经病患者治疗的英文文章。检索共识别出975篇包含关键词“小纤维神经病”以及“康复”或“治疗”或“疗法”的文章。审稿人对78篇选定的全文进行了分析。42篇出版物符合纳入标准,并被纳入本系统评价,以描述小纤维神经病的康复和药物治疗。尽管小纤维神经病的治疗方案多种多样,但仍需要其他有力的试验。此外,治疗方法始终各不相同;一个独特的方案对临床医生可能很重要。需要更多的研究来为最佳策略提供证据,并制定明确的治疗方案。
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