Schubert, Thomas E. O. and Weidler, Claudia and Lerch, Klaus and Hofstaedter, Ferdinand and Straub, Rainer H. (2005) Achilles tendinosis is associated with sprouting of substance P positive nerve fibres. ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES, 64 (7). pp. 1083-1086. ISSN 0003-4967,
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Objectives: To identify and characterise nerve fibres and inflammatory alterations in painful Achilles tendinosis and thus gain evidence about the origin of pain in Achilles tendinosis. Methods: The composition of 10 tendon samples from patients with a prior history of painful Achilles tendinosis and 10 samples from patients with spontaneously ruptured tendons but no previous pain was compared by immunohistochemistry and conventional histology. Results: The presence of granulation tissue was shown in 8/ 10 cases of Achilles tendinosis. Nociceptive substance P (SP) positive nerve fibres were significantly increased, and an inflammatory infiltration comprising B and T lymphocytes was found. Additionally, small foci with iron positive haemosiderophages, indicating prior microtraumatic events, were found in 6/10 samples. None of the spontaneously ruptured tendons contained granulation tissue or haemosiderophages. Inflammatory infiltration in these patients consisted almost exclusively of granulocytes and SP positive nerve fibres were decreased. The density of sympathetic nerve fibres did not differ in the two conditions. Conclusion: Achilles tendinosis is associated with the presence of granulation tissue, haemosiderophages, and SP positive nerve fibres, which may transmit the clinically pertinent pain. Achilles tendinosis may be caused by repeated microtraumata with ensuing organisation that is accompanied by sprouting of nociceptive SP positive nerve fibres.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ACHILLODYNIA; DOPPLER; TENDON; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin I Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Orthopädie Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Pathologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2021 12:26 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2021 12:26 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/35895 |
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