Retrospective Case Series on the Treatment of Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy With Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation

Neurophysiological Effects of Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation (DRGS) in Pain Processing at the Cortical Level

“…Morgalla et al reported 63.5% overall pain relief and improvement in BPI scores under DRGS in patients with post-herniorraphy inguinal pain, which was sustained even after three years of observation (14). These successful rates of pain relief have been replicated in other more recent smaller case series (11,55,56) as well as in some case reports (13,16,18,19,26). In our study, we had 74% mean pain reduction at one month and 70% at six-month postsurgery.…”

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation as a Potentially Effective Treatment for Painful Hereditary and Idiopathic Axonal Polyneuropathy: A Retrospective Case Series

“…This disease entity is commonly observed in the elderly population and it has been well‐characterized in the literature . Compared to the DRG stimulation study on painful DPN , the average age of subjects in this study is much younger (53 years old vs. 62 years old). The successfully implanted subjects have an average age of 47 years ago.…”

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation in Experimental Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: Burst vs. Conventional Stimulation Paradigm

“…Also clinically, the effectiveness of Con-DRGS and the superiority of Con-DRGS over Con-SCS for the treatment of chronic intractable pain of the lower limbs attributed to complex regional pain syndrome and causalgia has been published in a RCT (10). Additionally, the first retrospective study to assess the effect of Con-DRGS for refractory PDPN patients was recently published by Eldabe et al (11). Despite the retrospective nature and small sample size (ten patients) of this study, the authors concluded that Con-DRGS is a safe and effective neuromodulation modality to improve painful symptoms in PDPN patients (11).…”