Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Opioid therapy for the treatment of refractory pain in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

  • Viewpoint
  • Published:

From Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

View current issue Sign up to alerts

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Cassidy JT and Petty RE (Eds; 2005) Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology, edn 5. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders

    Google Scholar 

  2. Lovell DJ and Walco GA (1989) Pain associated with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Pediatr Clin North Am 36: 1015–1027

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Packham JC et al. (2002) Long-term follow-up of 246 adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: predictive factors for mood and pain. Rheumatology 41: 1444–1449

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Schanberg LE et al. (2003) Daily pain and symptoms in children with polyarticular arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 48: 1390–1397

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Jovey RD et al. (2002) Use of opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic noncancer pain—a consensus statement and guidelines from the Canadian Pain Society. Pain Res Manag 8 (Suppl A): 3A–28A

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Berde CB and Solodiuk J (2003) Multidisciplinary programs for management of acute and chronic pain in children. In Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents, edn 2, 471–486 (Eds Schechter NL et al.), Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

    Google Scholar 

  7. Caudill-Slosberg MA et al. (2004) Office visits and analgesic prescriptions for musculoskeletal pain in US: 1980 vs. 2000. Pain 109: 514–519

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Kimura Y et al. (2004) Treatment of pain in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a survey of pediatric rheumatologists. Arthritis Rheum 55: 81–85

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Collet BJ (1998) Opioid tolerance: the clinical perspective. Br J Anaesth 81: 58–68.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Shir Y et al. (2001) Methadone is safe for treating hospitalized patients with severe pain. Can J Anaesth 48: 1109–1113

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City

    Mark Connelly

  2. University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

    Mark Connelly

  3. the Co-Chief of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and an Associate Professor of the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Laura Schanberg

Authors
  1. Mark Connelly
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Laura Schanberg
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Laura Schanberg.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Connelly, M., Schanberg, L. Opioid therapy for the treatment of refractory pain in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Nat Rev Rheumatol 2, 636–637 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0351

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0351

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation