BACKGROUND Previous studies mostly did not separate between symptomatic disc herniation combined with osteochondrosis/spondylosis of the lumbar spine and symptomatic disc herniation in radiographically normal intervertebral spaces. This may at least in part explain the differences in the observed risk patterns. AIMS To investigate the possible aetiological relevance of physical and psychosoci...

PURPOSE To quantify the delayed contrast agent enhancement in the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc by means by T1 relaxation time measurements, and to correlate the enhancement with visual grading of disc degeneration. Diffusion of nutrients through the endplate is a key factor in tissue viability in the intervertebral disc. It can be simulated in vivo using magnetic resonance imagin...

The first paper, by Cavalcanti et al, was selected as the best paper in the SBMIDIA99 conference – Brazilian Multimedia Symposium. It concentrates on an important issue – that of management of sound (MIDI) files. Retrieval of multimedia data is based on textual description and indexing of some file characteristics. This involves two complicated issues – selecting features to describe, in order ...

We consider the evolution of a warped disc around a Kerr black hole, under conditions such that the warp propagates in a wavelike manner. This occurs when the dimensionless effective viscosity, α, that damps the warp is less than the characteristic angular semi-thickness, H/R, of the disc. We adopt linearized equations that are valid for warps of sufficiently small amplitude in a Newtonian disc...

Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare entity in the present era. Restrictive cardiomyopathy due to tapioca consumption is very rare, although it has been reported in India, especially in state of Kerala. We report a rare case of restrictive cardiomyopathy secondary to tapioca consumption in a 20-year-old male patient.

Calcification of intervertebral disc (IVD) is an uncommon but well-defined clinical syndrome in children. Despite its benign nature, occasionally, calcified nucleus pulposus can herniate into the spinal canal. We report an interesting case of calcified disc herniation in the thoracic spine. Although it resulted in cord compression and syrinx formation, it well responded to conservative manageme...

Degeneration of the intervertebral disc is implicated as the main cause of low back pain. Current treatment strategies for degenerative disc disease, such as conservative treatments and surgeries, only relieve the symptoms of low back pain without treating the causes of underlying degeneration. Surgical treatments cannot reverse the degeneration of the intervertebral disc degeneration, and may ...

The long-term course to lumbar intervertebral disc herniation (LDH) patients receiving integrative Korean medicine treatment and predictive factors associated with disc resorption were investigated. LDH patients who received integrative Korean medicine treatment from February 2012 to December 2015 and were registered in the "longitudinal project for LDH on MRI" were included. Disc resorption am...

INTRODUCTION: Understanding the mechanism which leads to low back pain is a critical step to developing novel preventative strategies and therapeutic interventions that target this debilitating disease. Epidemiologic data indicate a strong correlation between incidence of low back pain and repeated mechanical loading of the spine. Low back pain also correlates with degeneration of the intervert...