Acute paraplegia is a rare presentation for a spinal cord ependymoma. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to spinal ependymoma is also very rare. We report a 32-year-old woman who presented with acute paraplegia and typical clinical signs of SAH with normal cerebral angiography, and further diagnostic work-up revealed an spinal cord ependymoma as the source of the hemorrhage. There is evidence th...

Rodenbaugh, David W., Heidi L. Collins, Dustin G. Nowacek, and Stephen E. DiCarlo. Increased susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias is associated with changes in Ca2 regulatory proteins in paraplegic rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H2605–H2613, 2003. First published July 24, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00319.2003.—Paraplegia may increase susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias by alt...

AIM This study was aimed to identify the clinical and radiological profile of non-traumatic paraplegia and the various etiologies associated with the condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS A review of the clinical and radiological presentations of adult patients presenting with non-traumatic paraplegia managed at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Murtala Specialist Hospital (MMSH), Kano, ...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES To examine nutrient intake and body mass index (BMI) in the spinal cord injury (SCI) population according to level of injury and sex. DESIGN Cross-sectional study conducted at 2 SCI treatment centers. PARTICIPANTS/METHODS Seventy-three community-dwelling individuals with C5-T12 ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS) A or B SCI. Subjects were divided into 4 groups: male tetraplegi...

We examined the effect of the level and completeness of spinal cord injury (SCI), tetraplegia and paraplegia, on common carotid arterial (CCA) and common femoral arterial (CFA) functions supine and during head-up tilt (HUT), compared with able-bodied controls. Subjects (tetraplegia [n = 7], paraplegia [n = 8], and controls [n = 8]) were healthy males between the ages of 19 and 60 years. We used...

ObjectiveThe present study used data from the Japanese Committee for Stentgraft Management's national registry, which contains unique surgical data, including timing, anatomic factors, and pathologic to determine generalized community experience with thoracic endovascular abdominal aortic repair (TEVAR).MethodsThe medical background short-term outcomes were reviewed patients who had undergone T...

Intrathecal baclofen therapy (ITB) is an established treatment for intractable spasticity. More than 1,100 patients have undergone ITB in Japan, and there are about 50 hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) The features of ITB in HSP are 1. small doses of baclofen may often be enough, 2. small changes of doses later the symptoms remarkably, 3. doses can be decreased after long term ITB.

OBJECTIVE To translate and validate the Spastic Paraplegia Rating Scale (SPRS) into Brazilian-Portuguese. METHOD Two experienced and English-fluent neurologists translated SPRS into Portuguese, creating SPRS-BR. We then assessed inter and intra-rater reliability of this version using coefficients of correlation and variability in a cohort of 30 patients. RESULTS Mean age of patients and dis...

This study is to evaluate the clinical and radiological success of posterior decompression, posterolateral fusion and stabilization by pedicle screw and rod in the management of traumatic thoracolumbar fractures. It is a prospective interventional study which is carried out in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and different private hospitals in Dhaka city from January 2008 to December...

BACKGROUND Hereditary spastic paraplegia is a group of genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive spasticity of the lower limbs. The most common form of hereditary spastic paraplegia is caused by mutations in the spastin gene (SPG4), which encodes spastin, an adenosine triphosphatase associated with various cellular activities protein. OBJECTIVE To inve...