MEDICINE
NEUROLOGY
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Question
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Persistent pain that is caused by damage to nerve fibres, leading to increased spontaneous firing or alteration in conduction or neurotransmitter properties is (tick all that apply)
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referred
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somatic
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chronic
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neuropathic
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Nociceptive pain is defined as “pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue and is due to the activation of nociceptor, ‘’ and is thus due to direct noxious stimulus to the ocular surface.
Detailed explanation-2: -Neuropathic pain refers to pain that originates from pathology of the nervous system. Diabetes, infection (herpes zoster), nerve compression, nerve trauma, “channelopathies, ‘’ and autoimmune disease are examples of diseases that maycause neuropathic pain.
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