Efficacy Of Magnesium In Radicular Pain When Added To Local Anesthetics And Steroids In Transforaminal Epidural Injection

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2020-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

investigators want to assess the efficacy of magnesium in radicular lower limb pain when it is added to local anesthetics and steroids in the transforaminal epidural injections.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fayoum University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Magnesium Sulfate; Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone Acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion criteria were:

• Patients of both gender.

• Patients aged from 20 up to 70 years old.

• Patients of American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status grade I and II.

• Patients admitted for pain management of their unilateral lower limb radicular pain due to lumbo-sacral disc prolapse confirmed by lumbo-sacral magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) after failure of conservative treatments in the form of drug therapy and physiotherapy to control the pain for 6 weeks.

Exclusion criteria were:

• Patients with axial back pain without leg radiation.

• Patients with motor neurological deficits.

• Previous spine surgeries.

• Allergy to the study drugs used.

• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus or hypertension.

• Local or systemic infection.

• Pregnancy.

• Patients with any other neurological deficits as cauda equina.