Pain and anxiety associated with bone marrow aspiration and biopsy: a prospective study on 152 Italian patients with hematological malignancies.

摘要

Pain and anxiety associated with bone marrow aspiration and biopsy (BMAB) are frequently encountered by hema-tologists in daily clinical practice [1-5], about which we have read with much interest what was reported by Degen and colleagues in a previous issue of the journal [6]. In order to address this issue, we have performed a single-center prospective survey on patients affected by hemato-logical malignancies (HM) and submitted to BMAB. Between January and June 2010, pain and anxiety were assessed in all adult patients who underwent BMAB. There were 152 HM patients (M/F) with a median age of 54 years (range, 22-91). The main demographic data, hematological diagnoses, and procedure characteristics are reported in Table 1.