Fibromyalgia abstracts table of contents

Scientific Abstracts

The following are scientific abstracts from various sources:

Adler, Gail K

Reduced

hypothalamic-pituitary and sympathoadrenal responses to hypoglycemia

Alarcon, Graciela

Does

Chiari malformation contribute to fibromyalgia syndrome?

Arnold, Leslie M.

Duloxetine with placebo in the treatment of FM patients

Gabapentin in the treatment of fibromyalgia

Bennett, Robert

Impaired

growth hormone secretion in FM patients

Impact

of FM pain on health-related quality of life before & after tx with tramadol/acetaminophen

Bigatti, Sylvia M

Sleep

disturbances in fibromyalgia syndrome: relationship to pain an depression

Bradley, Laurence A.

Abnormalities

of regional cerebral blood flow

Abnormal

functional activity of the central nervous system in FM

Bushnell, M. Catherine

Accelerated

brain gray matter loss in fibromyalgia. Premature Aging of the brain?

Buskila D.

Increased

Rates of Fibromyalgia Following Cervical Spine Injury A Controlled study of 161 Cases of Traumatic Injury

Joint

hypermobility and fibromyalgia in school children

Prevalance

of fibromyalgia syndrome in migraine patients

Caro, Xavier J.

subset of FM patients have findings suggestive of CIDP

subset of FM patients with findings suggestive of CIDP treated with IVIg

Clauw, Daniel J.

Neurological

examination in individuals with fibromyalgia

Prevalence

of Chiari malformation and cervical stenosis in fibromyalgia

Efficacy

of milnacipran in patients with fibromyalgia

Therapy

insight: fibromyalgia-a different type of pain needing a different type of treatment

Milnacipran

for the treatment of fibromyalgia in adults: a 15-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multiple-dose clinical trial

Crofford, Leslie J.

Neuroendocrine

abnormalities in fibromyalgia disorders

Evidence

for and pathophysiologic implications of HPA axis dysregulation in FM and CFS

Pregabalin

for the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome

Fibromyalgia

relapse evaluation and efficacy for durability of meaningful relief (FREEDOM): A 6-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with pregabalin

Emad, Yasser

Hippocampus

dysfunction may explain symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome. A study with single-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Gracely, Richard H.

Functional

magnetic resonance imaging evidence of augmented pain

Cerebrospinal

fluid corticotrophin-releasing factor

Harris, Richard E.

Decreased

central µ-opioid receptor availability in fibromyalgia

Heffez, Dan S.

Clinical

evidence for cervical myelopathy

Is cervical

myelopathy overlooked in patients with fibromyalgia

there an association between cervical myelopathy and FM

Can

spinal cord compression cause the fibromyalgia syndrome?

Treatment

of cervical myelopathy in patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome

Holman, Andrew J.

randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial of pramipexole

Positional

cervical spinal cord compression and fibromyalgia: A novel comorbidity with important diagnostic and treatment implications

Jones, Kim D.

Impaired

growth hormone secretion in FM patients

Growth

hormone perturbation in fibromyalgia

Kranzler, Jay D.

Development

of milnaciprin, a dual reuptake inhibitor for treatment of chronic pain

Krassioukov, Andrei

Autonomic

dysfunction and pain in FM

Larson, Alice A.

Changes

in the concentrations of amino acids in CSF that correlate with pain in FM

Marchand, Serge

Spatial

summation for pain perception: interaction of inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms

Widespread

pain in fibromyalgia is related to a deficit of endogenous pain inhibition

Endogenous

pain inhibitory systems activated by spatial summation are opioid-mediated

Martinez-Lavin, Manuel

Fibromyalgia

as a sympathetically maintained pain syndrome

fibromyalgia a generalized reflex sympathetic dystrophy?

Norepinephrine-evoked

pain in fibromyalgia. A randomized pilot study

Hypothesis:

the chaos and complexity theory may help our understanding of fibromyalgia and similar maladies

Mease, Philip J

randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III trial of pregabalin in the treatment of patients with fibromyalgia

The

efficacy and safety of milnacipran for treatment of fibromyalgia. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Milhorat, Thomas H.

Chiari

I malformation redefined

Moldofsky, Harvey

The

significance of the sleeping-waking brain for the understanding of widespead musculoskeletal pain and fatigue in fibromyalgia and allied symptoms

Naschitz, Jochanan

Electrocardiographic

QT interval and cardiovascular reactivity in fibromyalgia differ from chronic fatigue syndrome

Natelson, Benjamin H

Plasma

cytokine fluctuations over time in healthy controls and patients with fibromyalgia

Nicolelis, Miguel A.

Dopaminergic

control of sleep-wake states

Pellegrino, Mark J.

Prevalence

of mitral lapse prolapse in primary fibromyalgia: a pilot investigation

Pimentel, M.

Eradication

of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth decreases symptoms in fibromyalgia: a double blind randomized study

Rosner, Michael J.

The

neurosurgical subset of fibromyalgia Part I

The

neurosurgical subset of fibromyalgia Part II

The

neurosurgical subset of fibromyalgia Part III

Fibromyalgia

Part IV: Long term outcome

Neurally

mediated hypotension (NMH) and POTS Part I

Neurally

mediated hypotension (NMH) and POTS Part II

Neurally

mediated hypotension (NMH) and POTS Part III

Treatment

of NMH with surgical decompression: 12 month follow-up

Rowe, Peter C.

The

relationship between neurally mediated hypotension and CFS

Russell, I Jon

Increased

concentrations of nerve growth factor in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with FM

Advances

in fibromyalgia: Possible role for central neurochemicals

Neurotransmitter

imbalances: Elevated CSF fluid levels of substance P in patients with FM

Sodium

oxybate relieves pain and improves sleep...

and safety of duloxetine for treatment of fibromyalgia in patients with or without major depressive disorder: results from a 6-month, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, fixed-dose trial

Sodium

oxybate relieves pain and improves function in fibromyalgia syndrome: A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial

Schmidt-Wilcke, Tobias.

Striatal

grey matter increase in patients suffering from fibromyalgia -- A voxel-based morphometry study.

Scharf, Martin B.

The

effects of sodium oxybate on clinical symptoms and sleep patterns in fibromyalgia

Skrabek, Ryan Q

Nabilone

for the treatment of pain in fibromyalgia

Staud, Roland

Evidence

for abnormal pain processing in FM

Neurobiology

of fibromyalgia syndrome

Fibromyalgia

pain: Do we know the source?

Body

pain area and pain-related negative affect

Spatial

summation of heat pain within and across dermatomes

Maintenance

of windup of second pain requires less frequent stimulation

Evidence

of involvement of central neural mechanisms in generating FM

Thimineur, Mark

Functional

abnormalities of the cervical cord and lower medulla

Watkins, Linda R.

When

pain goes bad: Mighty glia be the culprit causing fibromyalgia?

Spinal

gap junctions: Potential involvement in pain facilitation

Activation

of the spinal cord complement cascade might contribute to mechanical allodynia

Controlling

pathological pain by adenovirally driven spinal production

Immune

regulation of central nervous system functions

Immune-to-brain

communication dyanamically modulates pain

The

glial modulatory drug AV411 attenuates mechanical allodynia in rat models of neuropathic pain

Wilson, Russell B.

Antipolymer

antibody reactivity in a subset of patients with FM correlates with severity

Wood, Patrick B.

Stress

and dopamine: Implications for the pathophysiology of chronic widespread pain

reconsideration of the relevance of systemic low-dose ketamine to the pathophysiology of fibromyalgia

Open

trial of pindolol in the treatment of fibromyalgia

Reduced

presynaptic dopamine activity in fibromyalgia syndrome

Mesolimbic

dopaminergic mechanisms and pain control

Accelerated

brain gray matter loss in fibromyalgia. Premature aging of the brain?

Role

of central dopamine in pain and analgesia

Yunus, Muhammad B.

Genetic

linkage analysis of multicase families with fibromyalgia syndrome