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Preoperative concentration of beta-lipotropin immunoreactive material in cerebrospinal fluid: a predictor of postoperative pain?

Abstract：

:Levels of beta-endorphin immunoreactive material (IRM) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been reported to correlate inversely with postoperative morphine requirement. Considering proopiomelanocortin (POMC) derivatives as predictors for sensitivity to postoperative pain, we determined authentic beta-endorphin (beta-endorphin(1-31)), beta-lipotropin IRM, N-acetyl-beta-endorphin IRM and ACTH in CSF of 17 patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty, before surgery (t(A)), immediately after termination of propofol infusion and still under spinal anesthesia (t(B)), under postoperative pain (t(C)) and one day after surgery (t(D)); patients rated their severity of pain on a visual analogue scale (VAS) at those four times. In all patients CSF concentrations of N-acetyl-beta-endorphin IRM and beta-lipotropin IRM were found to be increased after terminating the propofol infusion with spinal anesthesia still effective at t(B). Patients did not feel pain at times t(A), t(B) or t(D); however, they reported moderate to considerable pain at t(C). There were no correlations of postoperative pain severity at t(C) with ACTH, beta-endorphin(1-31) or N-acetyl-beta-endorphin IRM concentrations in CSF. In contrast, we observed significant inverse correlations (Spearman's rank correlation coefficients between -0.83 and -0.85, p<0.01) for postoperative pain severity with beta-lipotropin IRM concentrations in CSF at t(C), and, in addition, at t(A), t(B) and t(D); thus, postoperative pain severity appeared to be dependent on a central system controlling sensitivity to pain, linked to a POMC system releasing beta-lipotropin IRM into CSF and already active at times t(A) and t(B). We conclude that beta-lipotropin IRM in CSF might be considered to serve as a predictor of sensitivity to postoperative pain.

journal_name

Neuropeptides

journal_title

Neuropeptides

authors

Matejec R,Schulz A,Mühling J,Uhlich H,Bödeker RH,Hempelmann G,Teschemacher H

doi

10.1016/j.npep.2005.10.001

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pub_date

2006-02-01 00:00:00

pages

11-21

issue

eissn

0143-4179

issn

1532-2785

pii

S0143-4179(05)00107-1

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Preoperative concentration of beta-lipotropin immunoreactive material in cerebrospinal fluid: a predictor of postoperative pain?