You will lie flatuntil the cement fully hardens. Medicinemay be given to prevent or relieve pain. What are the risks of vertebroplasty? Your nerves and spinal cord may be damaged. Spinal cord damage may cause you to leak spinal fluid, and you may become paralyzed. Nearby vertebrae or bones...
What Happens During Deviated Septum Surgery? This surgery is usually done by an ear, nose, and throat specialist. On the day of the operation, you’ll get some type of anesthesia. You and your doctor will decide whether local anesthesia (you'll be awake) or general anesthesia (you'll be...
Foraminal stenosis happens along your spine. Photo Credit: Medical Body Scans / Science Source Types of Neural Foraminal Stenosis Neural foraminal stenosis can happen anywhere along your spine. It's a type of spinal stenosis. Your spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that runs down the center o...
Spinal fluid may leak from the LP site. Your nerves or spinal cord may be damaged during an LP. If you have an Ommaya reservoir, it may become twisted or blocked. You may have an allergic reaction to the chemo or get an infection in your spine or brain. IT chemo may cause seizures....
Unstable angina usually happens at rest, wakens the patient at night, or comes on with minimal activity. These are times when the heart muscle is not being asked to work harder and yet angina symptoms may be present. Unstable angina is a potential warning sign of impending heart attack. Ther...
About 1 in 100 women develop a spinal headache in the days after the procedure. This can happen if the epidural needle punctures the bag of fluid that surrounds the spinal cord, causing the fluid to leak. Let your provider know if you have a headache when you're upright that goes away...
the tissue that surrounds the spinal cord and nerve roots. When this occurs spinal fluid can leak out through the hole and cause aheadache. This headachecan be treated with bed rest, or with a blood patch. A blood patch involves drawing some blood from the vein and the injecting it over...
Spinal stenosis causes are mostly degenerative, but include conditions such as osteoarthritis, that causes bone spurs to grow into the foramen; Paget’s disease that cause overgrowth; herniated discs, with which fluid can leak and press on the nerves; tumors; some spinal injuries, that can cause...
In some instances, this bulge may turn into a leak, with the fluid leaking from within the disc. In both these conditions you will often experience referred symptoms into your legs, this is the disc pressing on, and irritating, the sciatic nerve of the lower back. If you are ...
He then suddenly flip-flopped and replied, "OK, sure, let's wait and see what happens. Come back and see me in three weeks." I got the impression that if I had asked to try taco-eating therapy, he also would have agreed. His position seemed to be "schedule surgery or get out of...