Late deterioration after decompression illness affecting the spinal cord.

Spinal decompression sickness with delayed onset, delayed treatment, and full recovery.

Decompression sickness is caused by nitrogen bubbles formed in the body of divers and people working with compressed air who leave a compressed environment too fast. The bubbles most commonly afflict the joints, skin, brain, spinal cord, and lungs. Decompression sickness, if untreated, may cause permanent functional damage and is potentially fatal. We report an unusual case of decompression sic...

Delayed neurological deterioration after surgery for intraspinal meningiomas: Ischemia-reperfusion injury in a rat model

Delayed neurological deterioration in the absence of direct cord insult following surgical removal and cord decompression is a rare but severe postoperative complication in a small subset of patients with intraspinal meningiomas. To date, the underlying pathophysiology of such a finding remains unclear and ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is considered as the potential etiology in the literatu...

Neurologic outcome of early versus late surgery for cervical spinal cord injury.

STUDY DESIGN A prospective analysis evaluating neurologic outcome after early versus late surgery for cervical spinal cord trauma. OBJECTIVES The study was conducted to determine whether neurologic and functional outcome is improved in traumatic cervical spinal cord-injured patients (C3-T1, American Spinal Injury Association grades A-D) who had early surgery (<72 hours after spinal cord injur...

Spinal cord decompression sickness after standard U.S. Navy air decompression.

Late-Onset Non-Dysraphic Intradural Spinal Cord Lipoma: A Case Report and Literature Review

Here we report a case of late-onset non-dysraphic intradural spinal cord lipoma and provide a brief review of the literature. A 67-year-old man was referred to our department with a 6-month history of progressive gait ataxia. He had spastic paraparesis with left iliopsoas muscle weakness and hypoesthesia predominantly in the left leg. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an intradural extr...