objectives: nowadays, spinal cord lesions, specially its injury, is one of the diseases/injuries that human-being is been affected by. it not only causes irreversible economical/social/cultural problems & uncompensated costs to the patient’s family & society but also, makes active peoples to inactive & needy ones. till now, there is no successful treatment for these patients so this ailment, it...

During aortic surgery, interruption of spinal cord blood flow might cause spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). The incidence of spinal cord IRI after aortic surgery is up to 28%, and patients with spinal cord IRI might suffer from postoperative paraplegia or paraparesis. Spinal cord IRI includes two phases. The immediate spinal cord injury is related to acute ischemia. And the delayed...

Spinal cord analysis is an important problem relating to the study of various neurological diseases. We present a novel approach to spinal cord segmentation in magnetic resonance images. Our method uses 3D "deformable organisms" (DefOrg) an artificial life framework for medical image analysis that complements classical deformable models (snakes and deformable meshes) with high-level, anatomical...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Spinopelvic parameters related to sagittal balance have become increasinglyimportantamong spine surgeons due their correlation with patient satisfaction rates. Objective: The goal of this study was evaluate changes in spinal after lumbar surgery using PLIF, the posterior interbody fusion technique. Methods: sample consisted adult patients degenerative disease submitted ar...