Overview

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.