Reversal of neurological deficit with naloxone: an additional report

Spinal Tuberculosis with Neurological Deficit

Nineteen patients with thoracic or thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis and neurological deficits were treated by anterior debridement, decompression and vascularised rib grafting, followed, either during the same procedure or 14 days later, by multilevel posterior osteotomies, instrumentation and fusion. Surgery was performed under cover of four-drug antituberculosis chemotherapy, given for 12 mo...

Cardiac arrest after reversal of effects of opiates with naloxone.

Naloxone reversal of buprenorphine-induced respiratory depression.

BACKGROUND The objective of this investigation was to examine the ability of the opioid antagonist naloxone to reverse respiratory depression produced by the mu-opioid analgesic, buprenorphine, in healthy volunteers. The studies were designed in light of the claims that buprenorphine is relatively resistant to the effects of naloxone. METHODS In a first attempt, the effect of an intravenous b...

Progressive neurological deficit in an HIV patient.

To cite: Nwankwo N, Yeddula K, Vogel J. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013009985 DESCRIPTION A 57-year-old man with a history of HIV presented to the hospital with generalised weakness, slurred speech and an unsteady gait. CT scan showed hypodensity in the left cerebellar hemisphere and middle cerebellar peduncle and an MRI of the brain was consi...

Complete Fracture-Dislocation of the Thoracolumbar Spine with No Critical Neurological Deficit: A Case Report.

Fractures at the thoracolumbar junction are the most common spinal column fractures. Among type C fractures in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen Spine Classification, cases with complete fracture-dislocations of the spinal column often result in a critical neurological deficit despite surgical treatment. We present a case of an 18-year-old man who had a complete fracture-dislocati...