Are genetic and clinical factors associated with chronic postsurgical pain after hernia repair, hysterectomy, and thoracotomy?
Clinical factors should be systematically used to predict and manage chronic postsurgical pain risk while genetic predictors remain equivocal.
Until unequivocal genetic predictors of CPSP are understood, the authors encourage systematic use of clinical factors for predicting and managing CPSP risk.
Montes et al. (2015) studied this question.