A 65-year-old man with sudden back pain was transferred to our hospital by ambulance, who also complained of sensory and motor disorder of bilateral legs on arrival. The neurological disorder was gradually aggravated and paraplegia below the level of Th10 was manifested. Computed tomography demonstrated DeBakey IIIb acute aortic dissection; therefore, the paraplegia was thought to be due to spi...

BACKGROUND Paraplegia is mainly caused by spinal cord disease and rarely occurs due to head trauma. In this report, we describe a case of paraplegia caused by cerebral contusions in the bilateral precentral gyri. CASE DESCRIPTION A 72-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with mildly impaired consciousness and severe pure motor paralysis in both legs. He was healthy until the morning of t...

Paraplegia may increase susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias by altering the autonomic control of the heart. Altered cardiac autonomic control has been documented to change the expression of genes that encode cardiac Ca2+ regulatory proteins. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that paraplegia alters cardiac electrophysiology with concomitant changes in Ca2+ regulatory proteins in a manner...

Individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI), especially with tetraplegia, experience poor sleep quality, and this may be related to impaired control of circadian rhythmicity. Here, we examined the evening onset of melatonin secretion, an important hormone for the initiation of sleep, in people with a complete cervical (tetraplegia) and thoracic (paraplegia) SCI, and age- and sex-matched able-bo...

STUDY DESIGN A case report of nontraumatic acute complete paraplegia resulting from cervical disc herniation. OBJECTIVES To describe a rare case of nontraumatic paraplegia resulting from enlargement of a herniated disc in the cervical spine and to outline appropriate management of a patient with severe spinal cord compression secondary to disc herniation with developmental spinal canal stenos...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognostic significance of various clinical, radiological, and neurophysiological findings in conservatively treated patients with Pott's paraplegia, using multiple regression analysis. METHODS The study included 43 patients with Pott's paraplegia, managed conservatively. The diagnosis of Pott's spine was based on clinical, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed to...

OBJECTIVE To examine cardiovascular disease risk factors and risk clusters in Swedish persons with traumatic wheelchair-dependent paraplegia. DESIGN Prospective examination. SUBJECTS A total of 135 individuals aged 18-79 years with chronic (>or= 1 year) post-traumatic paraplegia. METHODS Cardiovascular disease risk factors; dyslipidemia, impaired fasting glucose, hypertension, overweight,...