Marriage and family patterns with long-term spinal cord injury
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The impact of spinal cord injury on long-term survival.
Injury to the spinal cord has devastating physical consequences, resulting in impairments of mobility and independence. The autonomic consequences are equally devastating. Impaired bladder function can predispose to urinary tract infection and loss of renal function. Weakness of the muscles of respiration can impair breathing capacity and the ability to cough. The loss of sensation over bony pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1972
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1972.38