ALLMedicine™ Spinal Cord Infarction Center

Jun 28th, 2022 - Approach Considerations The combination of mechanical compression of the spinal cord by pus or granulation tissue can result in ischemia with spinal cord infarction, which accounts for the rapid neurologic progression of this disease. Patients wit...

Jun 7th, 2022 - Disseminated intravascular coagulation due to spinal cord infarction masquerading as possible thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.|2022|Goodall E,Davis A,Wesselingh R,Solomon J,Davis M,|

May 3rd, 2022 - Fibrocartilaginous embolism is a rarely reported cause of spinal cord infarction. Seemingly innocuous activities may be associated with nucleus pulposus material embolising to the spinal cord vasculature. We describe a 36-year-old woman presenting...

Mar 28th, 2022 - Combined Stroke and Spinal Cord Infarction in Hybrid Type I Aortic Arch Debranching and TEVAR and the Dual Role of the Left Subclavian Artery.|2022|Awad H,Raza A,Saklayen S,Bhandary S,Kelani H,|

Mar 11th, 2022 - A 41-year-old woman presented with spinal cord infarction and paraplegia after acute thoracoabdominal aortic dissection. Clinical evaluation revealed the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) lower limb exercise score of 0 points and the Funct...

Dec 30th, 2021 - Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common cause of chronic pain and disability in older adults and is the leading reason for spinal surgery in older adults. In this condition, degenerative changes in intervertebral discs and osseous anatomy of the spine ...

Jun 11th, 2021 - Acute spontaneous Spinal Cord Infarctions (SCI) are an uncommon cause of myelopathy (5%), but their prognostic is heterogeneous and frequently severe. Positive diagnosis is difficult, one quarter of initial MRIs are normal. Differential diagnosis ...

Mar 5th, 2021 - A cervical epidural block is a widely used intervention to reduce pain in patients with cervicalgia or cervical radicular pain. To achieve a successful procedure, accurate access to the cervical epidural space is needed. However, careful attention...

Apr 7th, 2020 - THE CASE A 64-year-old woman with a history of late-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus, Hashimoto thyroiditis, and scoliosis presented to the sports medicine clinic with acute-onset, sharp, nonradiating right lower back pain that began when she bent f.

Sep 25th, 2018 - Removing senescent ("zombie") cells in the brain prevented tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline, research in mice suggested. (Nature) Some payers may have special requirements for neurologists who want to prescribe calcitonin gene-related...

Aug 16th, 2018 - Acute aortic occlusion (AAO) is a relatively rare vascular emergency. The actual incidence of AAO is unknown but has been variously reported to be 1% to 4%, and the incidence of AAO secondary to infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm is reported to.

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Jun 30th, 2017 - The LifeStream balloon-expandable covered stent got FDA approval for treating iliac artery occlusive disease, Mass Device reported, on the basis of the BOLSTER study showing acceptable odds of target lesion revascularization (3.9%) and major adver...