Transverse myelitis following general anaesthesia

Transverse myelitis following spinal anesthesia.

Spinal anesthesia is widely used during surgical procedures. It is generally safe and the frequency of severe, permanent neurological complications associated with it has been reported to be extremely low. We report a patient, who developed paraplegia following spinal anesthesia. A 29-year-old male was referred with acute, flaccid, sensory motor paraplegia, with bladder and bowel involvement. H...

Transverse myelitis following combined spinal-epidural anesthesia

Corresponding author: Youn Hee Lim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Sanggye Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, 761-1, Sanggye 7-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-707, Korea. Tel: 82-2-950-1173, Fax: 82-2-950-1323, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http...

Acute transverse myelitis following typhoid vaccination

Transverse myelitis.

Transverse myelitis (TM) includes a pathobiologically heterogeneous syndrome characterized by acute or subacute spinal cord dysfunction resulting in paresis, a sensory level, and autonomic (bladder, bowel, and sexual) impairment below the level of the lesion. Etiologies for TM can be broadly classified as parainfectious, paraneoplastic, drug/toxin-induced, systemic autoimmune disorders, and acq...

A case of transverse myelitis following T.A.B. inoculation.

NEUROLOGICAL complications following T.A.B. vaccination are rare. Miller (1954) has recently reviewed neurological sequela: of prophylactic inoculation. He has summarized 49 neurological syndromes following use of T.A.B. vaccine from the literature, to which he has added one case of his own. He includes one case of transverse myelitis, reported by Lemke (1943) .. In view of this. rarity, a case...