A spontaneous intrapericardial haemorrhage caused cardiac tamponade in a 29 year old paraplegic man who was being treated with warfarin. The associated persistent hyponatraemia, which was believed to be caused by an inappropriately high release of antidiuretic hormone, rapidly resolved after pericardiocentesis.

omplete paraplegia is defined as lower limb paralysis with loss of sensation. It is usually associated with loss of sphincter control both for bowel and bladder. Various medical and surgical causes may lead to complete paraplegia. Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is one major cause. Paraplegic patients suffer from several problems due to the nature of their injury such as physical impairment,...

Paraplegic subjects (N = 34) were examined to determine the association of pressure sore history with respect to ankle pressure ratio and buttocks cutaneous plethysmographic harmonic persistence. No relationship was found between pressure sore history and ankle pressure ratio. No significant difference in ankle pressure ratios exists for those who have a pressure sore history as compared to tho...

For many years it has been recognized that changes may take place in the skeletal bony and soft tissues in paraplegic patients. Madame Dejerine and her co-workers described such changes in 1918 and 1919 (Dejerine and Ceillier, 1918; D1jerine, Ceillier and Dejerine, 1919). War injuries, road and industrial accidents have been responsible for an increased number of paraplegic patients, many of wh...

Our aim is to develop a safe multi-functional, closed-loop controlled implantable FES system for paraplegic individuals to enhance quality of life by allowing prolonged standing, mobility, exercise, bladder voiding and pressure relief. In 1991, a FES 22-channel stimulator (Nucleus FES-22, Cochlear Ltd., Lane Cove, N.S.W., Australia) was implanted in a T10-paraplegic male (CS; ASIA: A) who achie...

BACKGROUND Preclinical investigations in animal models demonstrate that enhanced upper limb (UL) activity during rehabilitation promotes motor recovery following spinal cord injury (SCI). Despite this, following SCI in humans, no commonly applied training protocols exist, and therefore, activity-based rehabilitative therapies (ABRT) vary in frequency, duration, and intensity. Quantification of ...