Importance Although plenty of data exist regarding clinical manifestations, course, case
fatality rate, and risk factors associated with mortality in severe coronavirus disease 2019 …

Methadone is a synthetic opioid agonist considered a second choice drug in the
management of cancer pain. Methadone has a number of unique characteristics including …

In recent years, extensive research has been performed to identify prognostic factors that
predict survival in terminally ill cancer patients. This study describes the construction of a …

Purpose To determine the analgesic effect of the addition of gabapentin to opioids in the
management of neuropathic cancer pain. Patients and Methods One hundred twenty-one …

Breakthrough pain (BKP) is a transitory flare of pain that occurs on a background of relatively
well controlled baseline pain. Previous surveys have found that BKP is highly prevalent …

BACKGROUND In uncontrolled clinical trials, the administration of oral zinc sulfate has been
reported both to prevent and correct taste abnormalities in cancer patients receiving external …

Bowel obstruction may be an inoperable complication in patients with end-stage cancer.
Scopolamine butylbromide (SB) and octreotide (OCT) have been successfully used with the …

Background Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be
reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them …

The aim of this review was to evaluate the methods of pain measurement in controlled
clinical trials in oncology published between 1999 and 2002. An electronic literature search …

OBJECTIVES. We sought to verify the association between maternal intrahepatic cholestasis
of pregnancy (ICP) and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and to determine how …