Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Nervous System Diseases

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for nervous system diseases.

Reviewed August 2011

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Title:   Catheter policies for management of long term voiding problems in adults with nerve damage affecting the bladder
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with nerve damage affecting the bladder may have incontinence (leakage of urine) or an inability to empty the bladder (voiding problem). This may cause infections or damage to the kidneys. Treatments include a permanent urinary catheter, using a ...
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Lamotrigine (an antiepileptic drug) for acute and chronic pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Nerves which have been damaged by injury or disease can continue to produce pain. This type of pain is called neuropathic pain. Some antiepileptic medications can help neuropathic pain. Lamotrigine is an antiepileptic medication. The aim of this review ...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Decompressive surgery for treating nerve damage in leprosy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease. Leprosy bacteria cause damage to skin and peripheral nerves which may result in nerve function impairment and disability. Decompressive surgery is used for treating nerve damage although its effect is uncertain. ...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Cervico-thoracic or lumbar sympathectomy for neuropathic pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic pain due to damaged nerves is called neuropathic pain and is common. Some people postulate that neuropathic pain, particularly reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia, is caused by the sympathetic nervous system (a part of the autonomic nervo...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Neurosurgical interventions for the treatment of classical trigeminal neuralgia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Trigeminal neuralgia is defined as "sudden usually unilateral severe brief stabbing recurrent pains in the distribution of one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve". It has an incidence rate of 12.6 per 100,000 person years and more commonly affects older age groups.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Drugs other than those used for epilepsy for treating trigeminal neuralgia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition that affects the trigeminal nerve, the nerve which provides the sensory innervation of the skin on the face. The condition causes a sudden, severe, stabbing facial pain near the nose, lips, cheek, eye or ear. The inci...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Plasma exchange for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is an uncommon progressive or relapsing paralysing disease caused by inflammation of the peripheral nerves. It is characterised by slowly evolving weakness and numbness of the limbs. It is though...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Pregabalin for acute and chronic pain in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pregabalin relieves pain caused by damage to nerves, either from injury or disease. Antiepileptics (such as pregabalin) are medicines used for treating epilepsy, but are also effective for treating pain. The type of pain that responds well to pregabalin...
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Antioxidants and other pharmacological treatment for Friedreich ataxia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Friedreich ataxia is a rare progressive condition that causes damage to the nervous system. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, meaning that an affected gene must be inherited from each parent for the disease to develop in their child. It...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Tramadol for neuropathic pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neuropathic pain is frequently caused by damage to the peripheral nerves. Symptoms may include burning or shooting sensations, and abnormal sensitivity to normally non-painful stimuli. Neuropathic pain is difficult to treat. Anticonvulsants and antidepr...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Not enough evidence on whether hyperventilation therapy improves outcomes for people with traumatic brain injury
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of premature death and disability. Severe head injury can trigger brain swelling, thereby increasing pressure on the brain (raised intracranial pressure, ICP). Raised ICP increases the likelihood of brain damage o...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Treatment for IgG and IgA paraproteinaemic neuropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Paraproteinaemic neuropathy refers to those neuropathies associated with a paraprotein (an abnormal antibody or immunoglobulin present in relative excess in the blood). If the paraprotein is present without underlying evidence of disease, this is known ...
Date:   Oct 2006
Title:   Management of faecal incontinence and constipation in adults with central neurological diseases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The objective of this review was to determine the effects of management strategies for faecal incontinence and constipation in people with neurological diseases affecting the central nervous system. Individuals with neurological disease have a much high...
Date:   Feb 2006
Title:   Systemic administration of local anesthetic agents to relieve neuropathic pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Intravenous lidocaine and oral derivatives relieve pain from damage to the nervous system (neuropathic pain). In early reports, intravenous lidocaine and its oral analogs mexiletine and tocainide relieved neuropathic pain, a type of pain caused by disea...
Date:   Jul 2005
Title:   Local anesthetic sympathetic blockade for complex regional pain syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The efficacy of local anesthetic sympathetic blockade for CRPS is unknown. The sympathetic nervous system has been implicated in the pathophysiology of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia which are now conceptualized as variants of a single...
Date:   May 2005
Title:   There is insufficient evidence from randomised controlled trials to assess efficacy of surgical and non-surgical interventions for Morton's neuroma. More research is needed.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Morton's neuroma is a common, painful condition affecting the web spaces of the toes. Limited evidence from one randomised controlled trial indicated that surgery involving cutting the relevant nerve and implanting it into a muscle tendon may yield bett...
Date:   Apr 2004
Title:   There is insufficient evidence to confirm or exclude whether nonabsorbable disaccharides have an effect on patients with hepatic encephalopathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Nonabsorbable disaccharides (lactulose or lactitol) are considered the treatment of choice for hepatic encephalopathy. When all the identified trials were combined, nonabsorbable disaccharides appeared to have a modest effect on improving encephalopathy...
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   There is not enough evidence to show that lowering body temperature can reduce nerve damage during coronary artery bypass surgery.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For people with severe coronary artery (heart) disease, bypass surgery can be life saving. However, bypass surgery is sometimes associated with neurological complications, where very occasionally patients may suffer a stroke, or more commonly memory or ...
Date:   Oct 2000

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