Spinal cord injuryIn this issue of WORLD NEUROSURGERY, Dr. Emil Pastrana and his team from Puerto Rico present their experience treating , neurogenic shock in patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI). Of 199 patients treated for SCI during a 5-year period, 37 suffered from bradycardia (...
Approximately 200,000 people in the United States have spinal cord injuries (SCI), and approximately 10,000 new injuries occur annually. Most of the new victims are between 18 and 30 years old. The lifetime costs of paraplegia for such patients can excee
Spinal Cord Injury is defined as a devastating neurological condition characterized by paraplegia, quadriplegia, paraparesis, quadriparesis, and autonomic dysfunction. It involves acute, sub-acute, and chronic stages, with the immune system playing a critical role in its pathophysiology. ...
(1994). Massive steroids do not reduce the zone of injury after penetrating spinal cord injury. J. Trauma 37, 576-579; discus- sion, 579-580.Prendergast MR,Saxe JM,Ledgerwood AM,et al.Mas ??sive steroids do not reduce the zone of injury after penetrating spinal cord injury. The Journal...
A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to any part of the spinal cord, the bundle of nerves that runs from the brain down the vertebral column, or disease. "Spinal cord injury is basically any trauma to the spinal cord that interrupts the flow of [electrical] information from the brain to...
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a global health problem that afflicts young adults and the elderly. Motor vehicle accidents and falls remain the leading cause of SCI. It is becoming a significant social burden due to improved survival rate and access to care
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a multidimensional disorder arising from direct or indirect spinal cord damage. The most common SCI cause is acute trauma from motor vehicular crashes (MVCs), although the condition may also arise from insidious etiologies such as malignancies and chronic tuberculous infec...
The different spinal lesions that cause incomplete injury are: Central cord lesion Brown-Séquard syndromeBrown-Séquard syndromeBrown-Séquard syndrome (BSS) is a rare neurologic injury that causes hemisection of the spinal cord, resulting in weakness and paralysis of one side of the body and senso...
Will it be possible to control the neuro pathological processes that develop follow ing spinal cord injury? It has been shown in experimental animal studies that steroids may reduce cord odema and affect catecho lamine production, improving spinal cord blood supply and with neurological ...
A spinal cord injury is catastrophic and can happen to anyone during many types of accidents. Sadly, spine injuries are commonplace as a result of car accidents, motorcycle crashes, or other types of traumatic incidents or falls that result in personal injury. When a back injury occurs, the ...