- Epidural Clonidine의 제통효과에 관한 증례 2례 보고
- ㆍ 저자명
- 김병중,김영미,권광준,윤영준,진상호,Kim. Byung-Jung,Kim. Young-Mi,Kwon. Kwang-Jun,Yoon. Young-Joon,Jin. Sang-Ho
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 大韓痛症學會誌
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 1994년|7권 2호|pp.282-286 (5 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 대한통증학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
The central antihypertensive agent clonidine is an ${alpha}_2$-adrenergic agonist that possesses pain-relieving properties. It has been administered epidurally in the treatment of cancer pain and for postoperative analgesia. 1) Case 1, 62-year-old woman who suffered from neurogenic pain syndrome due to metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of spinal canal was treated. 2) Case 2, 51-year-old woman undergoing lower abdominal surgery, epidurally administered morphine did not produced postoperative analgesia. In these cases, continuous epidural administeration of clonidine (200ug/day) and 0.3% bupivacaine(12 ml/day) produce high quality pain relief. These results suggest that antinociceptive effect of epidural clonidine is assumed to result from activation of ${alpha}_2$-adrenergic receptors in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.