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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Riberto, Marcelo
• Frances, João Amaury
• Chueire, Regina
• Amorim, Ana Cristina Ferreira Garcia
• Xerez, Denise
• Chung, Tae Mo
• Mercuri, Lucia Helena Costa
• Lianza, Sérgio
• Rocha, Eduardo Carvalho de Melo
• Maisonobe, Pascal
• Cuperman-Pohl, Thais
• Khan, Patricia

Titel

Post Hoc Subgroup Analysis of the BCause Study Assessing the Effect of AbobotulinumtoxinA on Post-Stroke Shoulder Pain in Adults

Ist Teil von

• Toxins, 2022-11, Vol.14 (11), p.809

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Botulinum toxin type A is approved for the focal treatment of spasticity; however, the effectiveness of abobotulinumtoxinA (aboBoNT-A) in patients with shoulder pain who have set reduced pain as a treatment goal is understudied. In addition, some patients encounter delays in accessing treatment programs; therefore, the suitability of aboBoNT-A for pain reduction in this population requires investigation. These factors were assessed in aboBoNT-A-naive Brazilian patients in a post hoc analysis of data from BCause, an observational, multicenter, prospective study (NCT02390206). Patients (N = 49, = 25 female; mean (standard deviation) age of 60.3 (9.1) years; median (range) time since onset of spasticity of 16.1 (0-193) months) received aboBoNT-A injections to shoulder muscles in one or two treatment cycles ( = 47). Using goal attainment scaling (GAS), most patients achieved their goal of shoulder pain reduction after one treatment cycle (72.1%; 95% confidence interval: 57.2-83.4%). Improvements in GAS T-score from baseline, clinically meaningful reductions in pain score at movement, and clinically meaningful increases in passive shoulder abduction angle further improved with repeated treatment more than 4 months later, despite treatment starting at a median of 16.1 months after the onset of spasticity. These findings support the further investigation of aboBoNT-A injections in chronic post-stroke shoulder pain.