Case Report: Capacity to Objectively Monitor the Response of a Chronic Pain Patient to Treatment

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Watson, Julia
Lukas, Darren
Vickers, E Russell
Galloway, Graham
Mountford, Carolyn E
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2022
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Response to pain therapy is currently by patient self-report. We demonstrate that by evaluating the neurochemistry of a patient, using two-dimensional Correlated SpectroscopY (2D COSY) in a 3T MRI scanner, response to therapy can be recorded. A chronic temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain patient was evaluated by a pain physician specializing in temporomandibular disorders (TMD), and by 2D COSY, before, and 6 days after treatment with Botulinum Toxin A. Prior to treatment the self-reported pain score was 8/10 and reduced to 0/10 within 24 h of treatment. The neurochemistry of the patient prior to treatment was typical of chronic pain. In particular, the Fuc-α(1–2) glycans were affected. Following treatment, the substrates, α-L Fucose, were elevated and the Fuc-α(1–2) glycans repopulated. The depletion of the molecule assigned the glutathione cysteine moiety, with chronic pain, is indicative of a Glutathione redox imbalance linked to neurodegeneration. This new approach to monitor pain could help discriminate the relative contributions in the complex interplay of the sensory and affective (emotional suffering) components of pain leading to appropriate individualized pharmaceutical drug regimens.

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Frontiers in Neuroimaging

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1

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© 2022 Watson, Lukas, Vickers, Galloway and Mountford. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Biomedical imaging

fucosylated glycan imbalance

glutathione redox imbalance

neurochemistry

pain

response to therapy

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Watson, J; Lukas, D; Vickers, ER; Galloway, G; Mountford, CE, Case Report: Capacity to Objectively Monitor the Response of a Chronic Pain Patient to Treatment, Frontiers in Neuroimaging, 2022, 1, pp. 831216

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