%0 Journal Article
%T Efficacy of opioid switching in asian 51-year-old man with a phenomenon of pharmacokinetics tolerance: case report
%A C. Costa
%A I. Paladina
%A M. Del Zompo
%J Pathos : Trimestrale di Algologia
%D 2012
%I Publiediting
%X Opioid switching is a therapeutic procedure used in pain management as a method to improve analgesicresponse and/or reduce adverse side effects. The rationale behind opioid substitution is the incomplete crosstolerance between opioid. We report the case of an asian 51-year-old man withcancer pain unresponsive to oxycodone. In this case we hypothesize that the lack of response to oxycodone is linked to a phenomenon of pharmacokinetics tolerance.
%K Opioids
%K switching
%K side effects
%U http://www.pathos-journal.com/doc/Efficacia_dello_switching.pdf