a 21-year old man with cervical spinal cord damage due to diving was admitted in the icu. tracheostomy was performed due to prolonged mechanical ventilation. left lung atelectasis happened frequently. because of the difficulty of bronchoscopy and failing of recruitment, using a double lumen, two tracheal tubes were guided into the left and right lungs through the tracheostomy stoma site. after ...

introduction: spinal cord injuries (sci) lead to permanent irreversible functional deficits.  poor prognosis of patients is the motivation of searching a treatment for the chronic injury.  planting stem cells provides us with a promising strategy. in the meanwhile, the use of olfactory ensheathing cells (oecs) has shown very good results.  this study aims at evaluating the effect of transplante...

Introduction: Postoperative neurological deficit is the most devastating complication after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Despite demonstrated neuroprotective effects of estradiol, its protective efficacy against spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion and underlying mechanisms are not yet elucidated. Methods: Two groups, each of 10 New Zealand white male rabbits, were studied. Control g...

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MSJ JOURNAL Neuroinflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO) frequently affect the spinal cord. Spinal cord involvement is a key component for diagnosis of NMO, 1 and the presence of cord lesions in clinically isolated syndrome is highly predictive of conversion to clinically definite MS. 2 Furthermore, the degree of cord damage (e.g. ...

BACKGROUND The indications and timing of treatment, as well as the best treatment method for traumatic central cord syndrome (CCS), remain controversial. The aims of this study are to determine the prognostic factors of traumatic CCS and to determine appropriate surgical indications. METHODS We reviewed the clinical and radiological data of 47 patients with this syndrome. The data collected i...

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and spinal cord injuries amongst others pose significant challenges to modern Medicine. Traditional treatments often focus on symptom management rather than targeting the root causes of these conditions. However, advent Neuroregenerative Medicine represents a cutting-edge field that aims at restoring structure function nervous system...

Mitochondrial ATP synthase is the main enzyme of synthesis. A large number diseases, including neurodegenerative ones, are associated with disorders its assembly and functioning. The aim work to reveal patterns features regional distribution in neurons rat brain structures, a quantitative assessment content at cellular level. study was carried out on material from 5 outbred white male rats. Par...

Pain is a significant problem in diseases affecting the spinal cord, including demyelinating disease. To date, studies have examined the reliability of clinical measures for assessing and classifying the severity of spinal cord injury (SCI) and also to evaluate SCI-related pain. Most of this research has focused on adult populations and patients with traumatic injuries. Little research exists r...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of maternal diabetes on fetal spinal structure, especiallyin brachial enlargement. sixteen adult female rats were divided into two groups. diabetes was induced in one group by alloxan agent. both groups became pregnant by natural matting. on days 7, 14, 21 and 28 after birth, the brachial enlargement of the spinal cord was collected from offsprin...