Preoperative risk assessment for spine surgeryLumbar spine surgeryAcute blood lossLumbar spine surgery is becoming a common surgical procedure in the geriatric population. It is associated with the potential for acute and massive blood loss, hypotension, anemia, cardiac ischemia,......
This invention relates to an improved viscoelastic fluid or gel for use in general surgery and also more specifically in spine and neurosurgery and also in surgery dealing with reproductive organs. The invention encompasses the method of delivering to a surgical wound an implant composition having up...
Share on Facebook cerebrospinal fluid leak CSF leak Neurology The inappropriate loss of fluid from the otherwise sealed CSF space Etiology Trauma to head–eg CSF rhinorrhea, CSF otorrhea, cranial base surgery Diagnosis Suspicious post-op nasal or ear drainage, β-transferrin assay, endoscopic fluoresc...
[17] Bacchin MR, Ceria CM, Giannone S, et al.Goal-directed fluid therapy based on stroke volume variation in patients undergoing major spine surgery in the prone position: a cohort study[J]. Spine(Phila Pa 1976), 2016,41(18):E1131-E1137. [18] Nguyen HB, Rivers EP, Knoblich BP, ...
Any decompressive procedure in the spine has the potential risk of dural violation and subsequent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. A relatively uncommon complication in the cervical spine, the incidence of CSF leak was found to be 0.3% in a meta-analysis performed by Yee et al. [30]. It is...
Doctors in England believe that is exactly what happened….. A woman was suffering from persistent headaches before doctors finally discovered a cerebrospinal fluid leak in her spine which caused the pain unless she was lying down. Normally, such a leak can be caused by surgery, an accident or...
Effect of fibrin glue on the prevention of persistent cerebral spinal fluid leakage after incidental durotomy during lumbar spinal surgery. Eur Spine J.18(8):1169-1174 Approximately one million spinal surgeries are performed in the United States each year. The risk of an incidental durotomy (ID...
Using an alpha of 0.05 and Power of 0.80, a sample size of 5 animals per group was required to detect a 4.2 mmHg difference between baseline ICP in the two rat strains. Surgery and physiological monitoring Animals were anaesthetised with isoflurane (5% induction, 2% maintenance) in 50:50%,...
They are even more rare at the sacral level than those higher on the spine because of the stability of the bony pelvis [9, 10]. For the case described here, a possible explanation of the anterior development of the pseudom- eningocele with sacral erosion could be a complete and ex...
73 Thus, the loss of CSF from the spine can be compensated for by an increase of the vascular component, accounting for the pachymeningeal enhancement, engorgement of venous structures, and pituitary hyperemia; or by an increase in the intracranial CSF component, accounting for the subdural ...