Effect of hypovolemia on traumatic spinal cord injury

Effect of Aspirin on Spinal Cord Injury: An Experimental Study

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 injury...

POST-TRAUMATIC CHRONIC SPINAL CORD INJURY: ASSESSMENT WITH MRI

The initial experience concerning the use of magnetic resonance imaging in 94 patients who had sustained chronic cord injury showed its specific advantages over traditional imaging modalities. A variety of 84 cord abnormalities were identified including myelomalacia in 47%, cord cysts in 37%, focal atrophy in 11 % and cord transection in 5%. Canal stenosis was seen in twenty-five patients, ...

Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury.

The management of pediatric head injuries has evolved over the past decade,and a number of significant advances have been made. Evidence-based guide-lines and algorithms for the management of severe pediatric head injuries have recently been published, and all pediatricians who care for children with severe head injuries should be familiar with these guidelines. It is hoped the guidelines will ...

Animal Models in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Traumatic spinal cord injury in Nepal.

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...