ALLMedicine™ Arachnoiditis Center

Mar 14th, 2021 - Editorial for "MRI Findings of Arachnoiditis, Revisited. Is Classification Needed?"|2021|Pemberton HG,Prados F,|

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Prior imaging studies characterizing lumbar arachnoiditis have been based on small sample numbers and have reported inconsistent results. To review the different imaging patterns of lumbosacral arachnoiditis, their significance, and clinical impli...

Feb 19th, 2021 - We present a case of a progressive symptomatic intramedullary cyst, diagnosed decades after Lipiodol injection. Lipiodol was originally administered intrathecally for the radiologic diagnosis of spinal masses. A link between the lesion and the his...

Feb 15th, 2021 - To report a case of arachnoiditis as a complication of epidural blood patch procedures and to systematically review the diagnostic workup, clinical outcomes, and treatment modalities reported in the literature. Epidural blood patching is an effect...

Feb 9th, 2021 - The spinal cord injury (SCI) initiates an extraordinarily protracted disease with 3 phases; acute, inflammatory and resolution that are restricted to the cavity of injury (COI) or arachnoiditis by a unique CNS reaction against the severity of dest...

Jan 16th, 2019 - Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS) is defined as: spinal pain of unknown origin either persisting despite surgical intervention or appearing after surgical intervention for spinal pain originally in the same topographical location. Several condit...

Oct 15th, 2015 - In regional anesthesia local anaesthetics alone provide analgesia for not more than 4-8 hours. Increasing the duration of local anaesthetic action is often desirable because it prolongs surgical anaesthesia and analgesia. Different additives have ...

Dec 10th, 2019 - The patient developed neurologic symptoms, and lumbar puncture yielded green pus caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. He went on to develop arachnoiditis, which left him with impotence, incontinence, and excruciating pain.

Oct 23rd, 2017 - OPTIRAY (160, 240, 300, 320, AND 350): Edited boxed warning April 7, 2017 PLR conversion, addition of the following: WARNING: NOT FOR INTRATHECAL USE Inadvertent intrathecal administration may cause death, convulsions, cerebral hemorrhage, coma, p.

Oct 3rd, 2016 - SAN ANTONIO — Patients with severe chronic pain, including those with arachnoiditis, have low serum cortisol levels, a new study has shown. Before prescribing opioids to such patients, clinicians should check cortisol levels, and if these levels a...

Oct 3rd, 2016 - SAN ANTONIO — Patients with severe chronic pain, including those with arachnoiditis, have low serum cortisol levels, a new study has shown. Before prescribing opioids to such patients, clinicians should check cortisol levels, and if these levels a...

Nov 26th, 2014 - A review of events reported to the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) between November 1997 and April 2014 identified 90 cases of serious neurologic events associated with ESIs, including quadriplegia in a 53-year-old man who developed w.