Stueckle Christoph A, Talarczyk Sarah, Stueckle Kerstin F, Haage Patrick
Fakultät für Gesundheit, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Deutschland.
Zentrum für Radiologie, Helios Universitätsklinikum Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Deutschland.
Radiologe. 2021 Aug;61(8):758-766. doi: 10.1007/s00117-021-00850-2. Epub 2021 May 12.
Back pain is common and leads the patient to the radiologist both for diagnosis and in specific cases for therapy.
The current study compares the pain-reducing effect of microinvasive computed tomography (CT)-guided pain therapy for specific back pain caused by herniated discs or spondylarthrosis.
Over a period of 3.3 years, a total of 239 patients were included, in whom 686 CT-guided periradicular therapies (PRT) and 264 CT-guided facet joint therapies (FAC) were performed. In all patients, the pain score was determined using a visual analog pain scale (VAS) before the intervention, during the course of treatment and at the end of treatment. Finally, treatment success was correlated to the type of treatment performed and to the morphological changes present.
Both groups showed good improvement of pain under treatment (74% of the PRT patients and 60% of the FAC patients). Patients who underwent PRT showed an average improvement in pain score of 3.1, while those who underwent FAC showed an average improvement of 2.1. The efficacy of FAC was dependent on the degree of degenerative changes present. The more extensive the proven degeneration was in the treated segment, the more interventions were necessary for a good treatment response.
CT-guided PRT and CT-guided FAC both lead to a good reduction of pain symptoms. In comparison, PRT achieves significantly higher pain reduction than FAC.
背痛很常见,患者会因诊断以及在特定情况下因治疗而前往放射科医生处就诊。
本研究比较了微创计算机断层扫描(CT)引导下的疼痛治疗对椎间盘突出或脊椎关节病引起的特定背痛的止痛效果。
在3.3年的时间里,共纳入239例患者,对其进行了686次CT引导下的神经根周围治疗(PRT)和264次CT引导下的小关节治疗(FAC)。在所有患者中,在干预前、治疗过程中和治疗结束时使用视觉模拟疼痛量表(VAS)确定疼痛评分。最后,将治疗成功与否与所进行的治疗类型以及存在的形态学变化相关联。
两组患者在治疗过程中疼痛均有明显改善(PRT组74%的患者,FAC组60%的患者)。接受PRT治疗的患者疼痛评分平均改善3.1,而接受FAC治疗的患者平均改善2.1。FAC的疗效取决于存在的退变程度。在治疗节段中证实的退变越广泛,为获得良好的治疗反应所需的干预就越多。
CT引导下的PRT和CT引导下的FAC均能显著减轻疼痛症状。相比之下,PRT的止痛效果明显高于FAC。