Postspinal paraparesis

Tropical spastic paraparesis.

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is the cause of endemic tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM). Because TSP/HAM is not a fatal disease, the neuropathology of this disease, albeit relatively well understood, is based on the examination of just a few incidental cases. We summarise our experience with the neuropathology of tropical spastic parapare...

Spastic Paraparesis Following Cocaine Inhalation

Cocaine use is reaching epidemic proportions in the UK and the consequences are a number of debilitating effects. Strokes may result from a number of mechanisms related to cocaine use. This report describes a case of cocaine induced stroke in an apparently healthy young man with unusual patterns of radiological findings on his brain MRI.

[Tropical spastic paraparesis - anesthetic approach].

INTRODUCTION HTLV-1 infection is endemic in Japan, Caribbean, Africa, and South America. It is transmitted from mother to child, sexual contact, blood transfusions, or sharing needles. Tropical Spastic paraparesis (TSP) is a chronic degenerative neurological disease associated with this infection. It results from a spinal cord symmetrical degeneration at the thoracic level and is characterized ...

Acute chest pain and paraparesis.

Spinal Arachnoid CYST and Paraparesis

Spinal arachnoid cysts generaiiy communicate with the subarachnoid space. Theyare considered as benign entities and are rarely seen in neurosurgical practice (2, 9-11). Presentation with cornpressian of the spinal cord andi or roots may sametimes occur and this may be symptomatic, as myelopathy andi or radiculopathy (1-12). In this paper a case of intradural arachnoid cyst in the midthoracic re...