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[Genetic polymorphism affects the clinical effects of opioids after surgery].
Ugeskrift for laeger - 11 Mar 2013
Frydshou Andreas, Hansen Egon Godthåb, Gögenur Ismail
Abstract excerpt
Post-operative pain-management (PPM) should first of all be decided by the specific surgical procedure in each case, but it also seems that genetic polymorphism affects the clinical effects of the pharmacological treatment. In this article we summarize the existing evidence of the hypothesis that the A118G-variant of the µ-opioidreceptor-gene OPRM1 affects clinical response to opioids after gynaecological and...
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