Pathologies of spine like trauma, infection, malignancy or congenital problems can cause disturbed structural integrity causing deformity and displacement spine. This causes compression damage on spinal cord roots, which the is supposed to protect. In such situations, needs be decompressed, realigned fused in that position, so further injury prevented. Spinal fusion a natural process healing bo...

Abstract Aim Radical treatment for Spinal Oligometastatic Disease (OMD) was often traditionally treated with morbid Tomita En Bloc Spondylectomy. Now, Stereotactic Ablative Radiosurgery (SABR) provides curative tumour ablation without open surgery, reduced cord toxicity and better pain management. SABR delivered postoperatively to Separation Surgery (SS) has shown excellent mortality rates, inf...

spondylitis is a reemerging epidemic spinal infection in male broiler chickens (5 to 7 weeks of age) as well as broiler breeder roosters (15 to 18 weeks of age). among various causative agents, enterococcus species and in particular e. cecorum, a gram-positive bacterium as a gastrointestinal flora of birds, have mostly been isolated. on late september 2015, a number of 10 weeks old roosters wit...

Background and Aim: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is one of the most important complications after spine surgeries. Different methods have been proposed to prevent this type of infection. The present study was performed to evaluate the effect of applying topical vancomycin powder on prevention of SSI in patients undergoing spinal surgery using implants in Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan, Iran from F...

OBJECTIVE To present a case of a patient with spinal infection (SI) and highlight the chiropractor's role in the prevention or minimization of devastating complications of SI. BACKGROUND Recent literature trends suggest an increasing prevalence of SI. Patients with SI most commonly present with unremitting progressive back pain and may or may not have fever or neurological signs. To avoid neg...

background : veterans are among the highly-susceptible and highly-esteemed groups of the society. there is no correct, principled, and comprehensive programming with respect to home-nursing care for them . methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 26 veterans with spinal cord complications, with a 70-percent damage who were resident of najaf abad, iran were concluded. the data were gathered b...

Our aim was to review the efficacy of the wound vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) system in the treatment of deep infection after extensive instrumentation and fusion for spinal deformity in children and adolescents. A total of 14 patients with early deep spinal infection were treated using this technique. Of these, 12 had neuromuscular or syndromic problems. Clinical and laboratory data were revie...

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a monophasic clinical syndrome, characterized by immune-mediated demyelination of central nervous system neurons, which yield extensive damage in the brain and spinal cord.It usually affects children and young adults following infections or immunization. Here we describe a 9- year-old Fars female presented with acute onset of psychotic disorder, o...

The review article discusses in detail the problem of complications maternity patients associated with spinal anesthesia and cesarean section surgery. evidence base demonstrating risk pregnant women development acute neurological conditions is presented. problems toxic effect a local anesthetic (bupivacaine) consequences coronavirus infection on body are considered separately.