Implantation of an intrathecal baclofen pump is recommended for children with cerebral palsy as a means to improve care and comfort when other options fail to control severe hypertonia. Making an assessment of a child's spasticity-related limitations in both routine care and activity is a necessary component of selection of intrathecal baclofen candidates. The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicag...

BACKGROUND Acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy secondary to chemotherapy for leukemia has been described in the pediatric literature. However, the reports are rare and have been mainly from intrathecal methotrexate in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients who developed demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. CASE PRESENTATION A case report is presented of an unfortunate 53 year ...

Intravenous human immunoglobulins dominate in the treatment of autoimmune neuropathies. We introduce intrathecal application as a new option for experimental autoimmune neuritis in Lewis rats. After immunisation with neuritogenic P2 peptide, we show a therapeutic and preventive effect of intrathecal human immunoglobulins (5-40mg/kg) on clinical and electrophysiological neuritis signs. Histology...

The patient was diagnosed with ALL at the age of 13 years and commenced on UK 2011 treatment regimen including intrathecal methotrexate, daunorubicin, PEG asparaginase vincristine. She presented eight months after her initial diagnosis.

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We report a patient with Burkitt’s lymphoma involving the liver and retroperitoneal lymph nodes who developed acute, progressive, quadriplegia associated with sphincter dysfunctions and an ascending sensory level after the 2 dose of intrathecal methotrexate. The motor deficits and the spinal dysfunction persisted in spite of discontinuation of the methotrexate, as well as treatments with intrat...

conclusions intrathecal midazolam 2 mg provides significantly longer and effective postoperative analgesia with no side effects. results postoperative analgesia was significantly longer in the midazolam group compared to the control group (201.5 minutes vs. 357.6 minutes). the mean onset times of the sensory and motor blocks were significantly faster (p < 0.01) in the midazolam group compared t...