نتایج جستجو برای: paraplegia
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PURPOSE Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) has been the preferred procedure for the removal of large renal stones in Iran since 1990. Recently, we encountered a series of devastating neurologic complications during PCNL, including paraplegia and hemiplegia. There are several reports of neurologic complications following PCNL owing to paradoxical air emboli, but there are no reports of parapleg...
Objective: This study was conducted to ascertain the long-term complications of chronic traumatic paraplegia and the quality of life of paraplegic patients. Study Design: A retrospective descriptive study. Place and duration of study: Conducted at Fauji Foundation Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Materials and Methods: Twenty-six admitted male patients suffering from traumatic paraplegia were ph...
Background: Various preventive measures and treatment methods exist to prevent paraplegia during thoracic aortic surgery. Postoperative cerebrospinal fluid drainage (CSFD) is one of the options when occurs. This study aimed evaluate neurological efficacy postoperative CSFD in patients undergoing thoracoabdominal
Mutations in the ALS2 gene cause three distinct disorders: infantile ascending hereditary spastic paraplegia, juvenile primary lateral sclerosis, and autosomal recessive juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We present a review of the literature and the case of a 16-year-old boy who is, to the best of our knowledge, the first Portuguese case with infantile ascending hereditary spastic paraple...
A family with pure Strumpell's familial paraplegia is presented. There were 11 afflicted members involving three generations. The mode of inheritance was dominant, the onset in the first decade, and in this family the disease was mild. Literature data from 104 families with 536 members dating from 1880 are tabulated. This report confirms others regarding mode of inheritance, age of onset, distr...
[Purpose] This study compared the muscle activities of the neck and upper-limb muscles between able-bodied individuals and persons with paraplegia during wheelchair propulsion on the ground. [Subjects and Methods] The muscle activities of the neck and upper-limb muscles of 8 normal individuals and 8 individuals with paraplegia were analyzed during wheelchair propulsion. The activities of the la...
BACKGROUND Analysis of aberrant hypermethylation in stool DNA might provide a novel strategy for noninvasive detection of colorectal cancer. AIMS To explore the feasibility of detecting hypermethylation in Spastic paraplegia-20 promoter as a stool-based DNA marker for detection of colorectal cancer. METHODS We collected 96 tissue and stool samples from patients with colorectal cancer and 30...
The aim of the present study was to conduct a familial investigation and provide a genetic diagnosis to a family presenting with spastic paraplegia and clinically diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Blood samples were obtained from the family, and mutations in the gene causing spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3)/Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), known as MJD1, were analyzed using t...
A retrospective study of all 100 cases of non-traumatic (medical) paraplegia admitted to a large hospital in northern Tanzania over an eight-year period was undertaken; 15 of the patients were examined. Patients' ages ranged from 2 to 80 years (mean 31), and 67 were male. Seventy-one lived under 85 km (53 miles) from the hospital, and the average period from onset of symptoms of paraplegia to a...
BACKGROUND Acute aortic dissection is an extreme emergency that is generally manifested by violent chest pain irradiating to a patient's back and abdomen. Paraplegia due to spinal cord ischemia and infarction as a presenting manifestation of aortic dissection has been found in 2 to 5% of patients. However, painless paraplegia is exceedingly rare and limited to a few case reports in the literatu...
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