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BJA Advance Access published online on January 23, 2006
British Journal of Anaesthesia, doi:10.1093/bja/ael007
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Accepted December 20, 2005

Case Report

Repetitive paravertebral nerve block using a catheter technique for pain relief in post-herpetic neuralgia

Z. M. Naja 1 *, H. Maaliki 2, M. A. Al-Tannir 3, M. El-Rajab 4, F. Ziade 5, and A. Zeidan 2

1 Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Makassed General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
2 Department of Anaesthesiology, Sahel General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
3 Research Unit, Makassed General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
4 Paediatric Intensive Care, Makassed General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
5 Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Z. M. Naja, E-mail: zouhnaja{at}yahoo.com


  Abstract

We described in this report a case of post-herpetic neuralgia refractory to medical therapy that was successfully treated with repetitive injections of local aesthetic mixture (bupivacaine 0.5% 19 ml and clonidine 150 µg ml-1 1 ml) every 48 h for 3 weeks using a paravertebral catheter inserted at T2-T3 level.

Keywords: anaesthetics local, bupivacaine; complications, post-herpetic neuralgia, paravertebral; equipment, catheter; premedication, clonidine.
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