The treatment of both cancer pain and non-cancer chronic pain is still suboptimal. Using the clinical practice of intrathecal analgesia as a starting point, the overall aim of this PhD thesis was to conduct pain research at the interface between clinical pain medicine and the growing field of human proteomics. Hence, the cerebrospinal fluid is at the centre of the present dissertation, both as a target for infusing analgesics and as a potential biological fluid for human biomarker studies. Will it be possible in the future for pain physicians to prescribe analgesics on the basis of precise information generated by a panel of biomarkers?
The dissertation may perhaps been seen as a small step in that direction.
The Cerebrospinal Fluid in Severe
Pain Conditions
Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 1465
Emmanuel Bäckryd
Emmanuel Bäckryd The cerebrospinal fluid in severe pain conditions 2015
FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 1465 Department of Medical and Health Sciences Linköping University
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
www.liu.se
Clinical, Pharmacological
and Proteomic Aspects
The treatment of both cancer pain and non-cancer chronic pain is still suboptimal. Using the clinical practice of intrathecal analgesia as a starting point, the overall aim of this PhD thesis was to conduct pain research at the interface between clinical pain medicine and the growing field of human proteomics. Hence, the cerebrospinal fluid is at the centre of the present dissertation, both as a target for infusing analgesics and as a potential biological fluid for human biomarker studies. Will it be possible in the future for pain physicians to prescribe analgesics on the basis of precise information generated by a panel of biomarkers?
The dissertation may perhaps been seen as a small step in that direction.
The Cerebrospinal Fluid in Severe
Pain Conditions
Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 1465
Emmanuel Bäckryd
Emmanuel Bäckryd The cerebrospinal fluid in severe pain conditions 2015
FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 1465 Department of Medical and Health Sciences Linköping University
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
www.liu.se