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Assessment of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Guided Injection of The New Regenerative Medicine Techniques (Neural Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma) Impact versus Well Established Techniques (Steroid Injection) in Cases of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Secondary to Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Last updated: 30 Jan 2023

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Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic rheumatic disease characterized by symmetrical, often erosive and deforming poly-arthritis with extra-articular manifestations in 10–20% of patients, especially those with high titers of rheumatoid factor. Extra articular pathology includes bursitis, tendonitis and neuritis, which results from entrapment, nerve ischemia due to vasculitis or drugs used to treat this condition.Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common compression neuropathy associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Aim of the Work: To evaluate the efficacy of Neural Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma in treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome secondary to rheumatoid arthritis. Patients and Methods: Ninety patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) that were all fulfilling the 2016 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for RA. All were over the age of sixteen years at time of diagnosis, complaining of burning pain or paresthesia in the median nerve distribution of the hand. They were recruited from Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department at Al-Hussein and Sayed Galal University Hospitals during the period from December 2018 to July 2019. Results: Neural Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) have improved all measured parameters like visual analogue scale (VAS), nerve conduction studies and neuromuscular ultrasonography parameters in carpal tunnel syndrome secondary to rheumatoid arthritis. Conclusion: Neural Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma proved to be effective treatments of carpal tunnel syndrome secondary to rheumatoid arthritis.

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10.21608/ejhm.2019.45034

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Rheumatoid Arthritis, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Steroid, Neural prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma

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Ahmed A.

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Abdel-Aziz

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Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Hegazy M.

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Al-Tamimy

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Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Ahmed M.

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Fahmy

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Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Mahmoud S.

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Abd Allah

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Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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samymahmoud662@yahoo.com

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76

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7

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6934

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2019-07-01

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2019-08-18

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2019-07-01

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4,523

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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22 Jan 2023