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Is epidural steroid injection effective for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis?
- Source :
- Medwave, Vol 15, Iss Suppl 3 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- There are several nonsurgical alternatives to treat radicular pain in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. Epidural steroid injections have been used for several decades, but the different studies have shown variable effects. Searching in Epistemonikos database, which is maintained by screening 30 databases, we identified nine systematic reviews including seven pertinent randomized controlled trials. We concluded epidural steroid injection probably leads to little or no effect on reducing radicular pain of spinal stenosis.Existe una variada cantidad de alternativas no quirúrgicas para tratar el dolor radicular producido por la raquiestenosis lumbar degenerativa. Los corticoides epidurales se utilizan desde hace varias décadas, sin embargo la eficacia reportada en la literatura es muy variable. Utilizando la base de datos Epistemonikos, la cual es mantenida mediante búsquedas en 30 bases de datos, identificamos nueve revisiones sistemáticas que en conjunto incluyen siete estudios aleatorizados. Realizamos un metanálisis y tablas de resumen de los resultados utilizando el método GRADE. Concluimos que la inyección de corticoides epidurales probablemente tiene poco o nulo efecto en reducir el dolor radicular por estenorraquis.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Spinal stenosis
medicine.medical_treatment
lcsh:Medicine
Injections, Epidural
Lumbar vertebrae
law.invention
Spinal Stenosis
Randomized controlled trial
law
medicine
Humans
Radiculopathy
Glucocorticoids
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis
lcsh:R5-920
Lumbar Vertebrae
business.industry
Epidural steroid injection
lcsh:R
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Surgery
Clinical research
medicine.anatomical_structure
Radicular pain
Meta-analysis
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07176384
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medwave
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bff114c014cb7ed3ddc7aea81e7c4ae0