BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To assess the feasibility of spinal tractography in patients of spinal cord injury vs a control group and to compare fractional anisotropy (FA) values between the groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was performed in the spinal cord of 29 patients (18 patients and 11 controls). DTI was done in the cervical region if the cord injury was at the dor...

There are many causes of paraspinal muscle weakness which give rise to the dropped-head syndrome. In the upper cervical spine the central portion of the spinal cord innervates the cervical paraspinal muscles. Dropped-head syndrome resulting from injury to the central spinal cord at this level has not previously been described. We report two patients who were treated acutely for this condition. ...

Neural precursor cells (NPCs) are promising grafts for treatment of traumatic CNS injury and neurodegenerative disorders because of their potential to differentiate into neurons and glial cells. When designing clinical protocols for NPC transplantation, it is important to develop alternatives to direct parenchymal injection, particularly at the injury site. We reasoned that since it is minimall...

background and aim : acute injuries of the spine and spinal cord are causing the greatest amount of disability. they produce high cost outcomes for patients and society psychologically and economically. knowing the epidemiology of these injuries play an important role in planning for prevention and conservative treatment. but now, we have little information about this in our country. the aim of...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with cervical spine injury admitted to Rajaee hospital, Shiraz, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study includes all patients admitted with impression of cervical column injury with or without cervical cord injury from October 2009 to March 2012 to our level I trauma center in Shiraz. We recorded the patients' characterist...

introduction spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality (sciwora) is a rare entity and usually involves the cervical spine. thoracic spine involvement is very rare due to the stability provided by the rib cage. the mechanisms of injury and pathophysiology are still debatable. case presentation we present a case of an adult male who had road traffic accident and presented with paraplegi...

BACKGROUND Injury to the spine and spinal cord is one of the common cause of disability and death. Several factors affect the outcome; but which are these factors (alone and in combination), are determining the outcomes are still unknown. The aim of the study was to evaluate the factors influencing the outcome following acute cervical spine injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective observat...

aspirin is an anti-inflammatory drug, peroxyl radical scavenger, and antioxidant agent that inhibits phospholipases, nitric oxide synthetases, and cyclooxygenase enzymes. the existing literature contains no studies on the effects of various doses of aspirin on spinal cord injury (sci). therefore, we sought to investigate the putative effects of aspirin on experimental sci. the weight-drop injur...

conclusions available data implies that restorative therapies should focus on multiple targets and different intervals after injury. yet, if we understand the key and basic origin of the injury, we may develop effective, complete, safe, and continual procedures. materials and methods we downloaded and reviewed more than 170 full textbooks and articles in english from the literature pubmed, and ...

Spinal cord injury is devastating injury, which has serious impact not only to the individual but also to family members, society and the nations as a whole because the available treatment options are expensive, prolong, resource consuming and do not always fulfill the expectation of patient and family members. Worldwide incidence of spinal cord injury has been reported up to 236-1009/million/y...