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Codeine in post-operative pain. Study of the influence of sparteine phenotype and serum concentrations of morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide.
European journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Aug 1998
Poulsen L, Riishede L, Brøsen K, Clemensen S, Sindrup S H
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OBJECTIVE: Within the past decade, human experimental pain studies have supported the 50-year-old hypothesis that codeine is a prodrug, which has to be converted to morphine to exert an analgesic effect. This study aimed at evaluating the impact of sparteine phenotype and serum concentrations of morphine on the efficacy of codeine in post-operative pain. METHODS: Eighty-one patients with a pain rating of 3 or...
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