Causalgia

Description

causalgia: Complex regional pain syndrome type 2 (CRPS2), or causalgia is a form of complex regional pain syndrome that develops after damage to a peripheral nerve and is characterized by spontaneous pain, allodynia and hyperalgesia , not necessarily limited to the territory of the injured nerve, as well as at some point, edema, changes in skin blood flow or sudomotor dysfunction in the pain area.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode G6_CAUSALGIA
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: G564
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: G564
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 3222
GWAS catalog 1000854
MESH D002422
SNOMED CT 408751001

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 126 94 32
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.1 0.13 0.06
Mean age at first event (years) 48.38 48.53 47.94
Median number of events / individual 2 2 1

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 48.41 50.0 43.75
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 2.38 2.13 3.13

Associations