試題詳解

24. Which of the following is the unacceptable statement about Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS)?
(A) It is very likely that an affective disorder is one of the causes of FMS.
(B) There is evidence to suggest that FMS is a disorder of abnormal processing of sensory information within the central nervous system,
(C) Several neurochemical mediators of pain (substance P, nerve growth factor, dynorphin A, glutamate, nitric oxide, serotonin and noradrenaline) are believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of FMS.
(D) There is still no cure for FMS, so its management is non-specific, multimodal, expectant and symptomatic.
(E) The use of opioids in patients with FMS is controversial.