Chlorhexidine arachnoiditis

Arachnoiditis ossificans.

Arachnoiditis ossificans is a rare type of chronic arachnoiditis characterised by the presence of calcification or ossification of the spinal arachnoid. There are a few reports of this condition in Japanese and western populations but no case has been reported in a Chinese population before. We describe a 35-year-old woman with typical findings of arachnoiditis ossificans. A brief review of the...

Cryptococcal spinal arachnoiditis.

Infection of the central nervous system by Cryptococcus neoformans has been reported in the medical literature often enough to be now widely recognized as one of the causes of chronic meningitis. The symptoms and signs emphasized include headache, vomiting, papilloedema, progressive blindness, hemiplegia, and alterations of mental status. Cryptococcal meningitis is commonly associated with pre-...

Post Surgical Arachnoiditis

Living with Arachnoiditis

Christine Hopkins, a New Zealand nurse, wrote a thesis in 1998 on "The Presenting symptoms associated with arachnoiditis and the experience of living with them in everyday life". In this study, she interviewed in considerable depth, 11 participants, 1 of whom had no pain. The others experienced pain in various sites, burning, numb and cold areas, stabbing; flares of pain; constant; so...

Handbook on Arachnoiditis