SENILE PARAPLEGIA

Senile scleral plaques and senile scleromalacia.

A case of senile scleral plaques is reported in which expulsion of a calcified plaque anterior to the insertion of the medial horizontal rectus muscle gave rise to senile scleromalacia. Histopathological examination revealed a second calcified plaque at the site of the contralateral senile scleral plaque in this eye. This case indicates that senile scleromalacia is a scleral disease sui generis...

Paraplegia.

Nurses caring for people who have sustained an injury resulting in paraplegia must have an understanding of both the psychological and physical effects. This Update examines the nurse's role in preparing the patient for the future.

Senile Endometritis

Senile Cataract

course of the illness varied markedly; two cases ended on the sixth day of disease and one still survives at the thirty-seventh day now. In the intermediate examples the outstanding and most tantalising feature is the tendency to periods of remission; in one case the fluid had become practically normal only to revert to its former turbidity later. rreatment in our hands has been manifestly unsu...

Understanding Paraplegia

The extent to which that hospital, under direction of Dr. L. Guttmann, has been responsible for progress in the treatmen'1 paraplegia is well known throughout the world. During the First World War. 80% of the victims of spinal injury died in the first few months. Now, the death'r:j, is less than 8%, and over 85% of the patients treated at Stoke Mandeville are gaiii^. employed, lead a full and i...