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Pain characteristics and demographics of patients attending a university-affiliated pain clinic in Toronto, OntarioA Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, Toronto, Canada
Pain Res Manag 12:93-9. 2007..Pain clinics tend to see more complex chronic pain patients than primary care settings, but the types of patients seen may differ among practices...
Posttraumatic painful torticollisDaniel S Sa
Movement Disorders Unit, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mov Disord 18:1482-91. 2003..We propose that the disorder be referred to as "posttraumatic painful torticollis" rather than characterize it as a form of dystonia until further information on its pathogenesis is forthcoming...
Systematic review of the quality and generalizability of studies on the effects of opioids on driving and cognitive/psychomotor performanceAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Krembil Neuroscience Center, 399 Bathurst St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Pain 28:542-55. 2012..The objective of this systematic review was to assess the quality of studies and to revisit the concept that patients on stable opioids are safe to drive as it applies to everyday practice...
Evidence-based guideline for neuropathic pain interventional treatments: spinal cord stimulation, intravenous infusions, epidural injections and nerve blocksAngela Mailis
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Pain Res Manag 17:150-8. 2012..The society aimed to generate an additional guideline for other forms of neuropathic pain treatments...
Characteristics and period prevalence of self-induced disorder in patients referred to a pain clinic with the diagnosis of complex regional pain syndromeAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Pain 24:176-85. 2008..This report investigates the period prevalence and characteristics of self-induced disorders in patients referred to a comprehensive pain clinic with a diagnosis of CRPS...
Pain characteristics of adults 65 years of age and older referred to a tertiary care pain clinicA Mailis-Gagnon
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pain Res Manag 13:389-94. 2008..Reports indicate that characteristics of older adults with chronic pain may be different than those of younger persons...
Effects of intravenous sodium amobarbital vs lidocaine on pain and sensory abnormalities in patients with spinal cord injuryAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Krembil Neuroscience Center and Toronto Western Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Spinal Cord Med 32:49-53. 2009..To compare the responses of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) in regards to pain and sensory abnormalities to single blinded intravenous (i.v.) infusions of normal saline, sodium amobarbital, and lidocaine...
Analysis of complaints to a tertiary care pain clinic over a nine-year periodAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, Toronto, Ontario
Pain Res Manag 15:17-23. 2010....
Nondermatomal somatosensory deficits: overview of unexplainable negative sensory phenomena in chronic pain patientsAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Canada
Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 23:593-7. 2010....
On the nature of nondermatomal somatosensory deficitsAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Pain 27:76-84. 2011....
Chronic noncancer pain: characteristics of patients prescribed opioids by community physicians and referred to a tertiary pain clinicAngela Mailis-Gagnon
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada
Can Fam Physician 57:e97-105. 2011..To describe the characteristics of patients with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) prescribed opioids by community physicians and referred to a tertiary pain clinic...
Opioid use and abuse: is there a problem?Angela Mailis Gagnon
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Clin J Pain 23:661-2. 2007
Dissociation between cutaneous and deep sensibility in central post-stroke pain (CPSP)Angela Mailis
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Pain 98:331-4. 2002..This is the first such report of dissociation of cutaneous- from deep-tissue sensibility loss...
Abnormal contralateral pain responses from an intradermal injection of phenylephrine in a subset of patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)Angela Mailis-Gagnon
Comprehensive Pain Program, Krembil Neuroscience Center, Toronto Western Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto Center for the Study of Pain, 4F811, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5T 2S8
Pain 111:378-84. 2004..However, such a response in contralateral asymptomatic limbs suggests an additional factor that more likely than not is of central origin and may or may not be related to sympathectomy and its success or failure to treat pain...
Anterior intercostal nerve damage after coronary artery bypass graft surgery with use of internal thoracic artery graftA Mailis
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals, and University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, Ontario, Canada
Ann Thorac Surg 69:1455-8. 2000..The prevalence of intercostal nerve damage associated with coronary artery bypass graft-internal thoracic (mammary) artery surgery is unknown...
Referring patients with chronic noncancer pain to pain clinics: survey of Ontario family physiciansS Fatima Lakha
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada
Can Fam Physician 57:e106-12. 2011..To examine the factors associated with FPs' referrals of patients with chronic noncancer pain to a tertiary care pain clinic...
Characteristics and associated features of persistent post-sympathectomy painAnastasios T Kapetanos
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Pain 19:192-9. 2003..However, our findings indicate that if the pain persists after the procedure, the complications may be quite serious and at times worse than the problem for which the surgery was originally performed...
Opioids for managing chronic non-malignant pain: safe and effective prescribingMeldon Kahan
Addiction Medical Service, St Joseph s Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Can Fam Physician 52:1091-6. 2006..To review the evidence on safe and effective prescribing of opioids for chronic non-malignant pain...
Oral methadone for chronic noncancer pain: a systematic literature review of reasons for administration, prescription patterns, effectiveness, and side effectsJuan Alberto Sandoval
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clin J Pain 21:503-12. 2005..Well-designed controlled trials may provide more accurate information on the drug's efficiency in pain syndromes and in particular neuropathic pain...
Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a meta-analysis of effectiveness and side effectsAndrea D Furlan
Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Ont
CMAJ 174:1589-94. 2006..Despite the relative shortness of the trials, more than one-third of the participants abandoned treatment...
Disrupted central somatosensory processing in CRPS: a unique characteristic of the syndrome?Angela Mailis-Gagnon
Pain 123:3-5. 2006
