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2020 Sep 10


Cartilage

Does the Presence of Neuropathic Pain Influence the Response to Hyaluronic Acid in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis?

Authors

Tiendrebeogo E, Choueiri M, Chevalier X, Conrozier T, Eymard F
Cartilage. 2020 Sep 10:1947603520954509.
PMID: 32909439.

Abstract

Up to 50% of patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) present with neuropathic pain (NP) features. We assessed the impact of NP according to DN4 (Douleurs Neuropathiques 4 questions) score on the response to intra-articular (IA) hyaluronic acid (HA) injections and the effects of HA injections on NP.