Giovannini Silvia, Coraci Daniele, Brau Fabrizio, Galluzzo Vincenzo, Loreti Claudia, Caliandro Pietro, Padua Luca, Maccauro Giulio, Biscotti Lorenzo, Bernabei Roberto
Department of Aging, Neurological, Orthopaedic and Head-Neck Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Department of Neurosciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Mar 30;11(4):613. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11040613.
Neuropathic pain due to a lesion or a disease of the somatosensory system often affects older people presenting several comorbidities. Moreover, elderly patients are often poly-medicated, hospitalized and treated in a nursing home with a growing risk of drug interaction and recurrent hospitalization. Neuropathic pain in the elderly has to be managed by a multidimensional approach that involves several medical, social and psychological professionals in order to improve the quality of life of the patients and, where present, their relatives.
由于躯体感觉系统的损伤或疾病引起的神经性疼痛常常影响患有多种合并症的老年人。此外,老年患者通常使用多种药物,在疗养院住院和接受治疗,药物相互作用和反复住院的风险日益增加。老年神经性疼痛必须通过多维度方法进行管理,这需要多名医学、社会和心理专业人员参与,以提高患者及其亲属(若有)的生活质量。