Polyamine-free Diet to Prevent Post Surgery Hyperalgesia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

After surgery, sensitization and hyperexcitability of central nervous system result in acute and long lasting postoperative pain. It has been shown that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors antagonist (such as ketamine) prevent this adverse neuroplasticity and potentiate analgesic drugs efficacy. Polyamines (putrescine, spermidine, spermine) are essential components of cells functioning and are also known as allosteric modulators of NMDA receptors. In animal studies, polyamine-free diet has confirmed these antinociceptive properties. This research aims at evaluating anti hyperalgesic properties of polyamine-free diet in women operated on breast cancer versus kétamine

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Bordeaux
• Collaborators: Insurance CNP foundation; Ministry of Health, France
• Treatments: Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Breast cancer (T1, T2, T3, N0, N1, M0)

• Age : 18 - 75

• Asa 1-3

• left or right tumorectomy with complete lymphadenectomy

• left or right complete mastectomy with complete lymphadenectomy

• complete lymphadenectomy within one week following simple tumorectomy

• informed consent signed

Exclusion Criteria:

• inflammatory tumor requiring pre-operative radiotherapy

• previous history of total mastectomy or partial contralateral mastectomy

• chronic inflammatory disease treated by corticoids or NSAI

• chronic analgesic treatment

• anti-arrhythmic or anti-epileptic treatments

• morphinic treatment during the 7 days before surgery

• excessive alcohol consumption or addiction

• ketamine or neomycin contra-indication

• severe cardiovascular disease