BACKGROUND To investigate the association between the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of hypoxia-inducible factor1 α (HIF-1α) and the susceptibility to cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and its outcome after surgical treatment. METHOD A total of 230 CSM patients and 284 healthy controls were recruited. All patients received anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACF) and were follo...

BACKGROUND Cervical spine manipulation (CSM) is a commonly utilized intervention, but its use remains controversial. PURPOSE To retrospectively analyze all available documented case reports in the literature describing patients who had experienced severe adverse events (AEs) after receiving CSM to determine if the CSM was used appropriately, and if these types of AEs could have been prevented...

Carotid sinus massage – How safe is it? SIR—Carotid sinus massage (CSM) is a useful diagnostic tool in the investigation of unexplained falls and syncope [1]. Despite the increased use of CSM, concerns persist regarding its safety particularly in older patients. The principal concern relates to the development of neurological events secondary to CSM. The likelihood of performing CSM over athero...

Background: Cervical spine manipulation (CSM) is a commonly utilized intervention, but its use remains controversial. Purpose: To retrospectively analyze all available documented case reports in the literature describing patients who had experienced severe adverse events (AEs) after receiving CSM to determine if the CSM was used appropriately, and if these types of AEs could have been prevented...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. OBJECTIVE Intraoperative motor evoked potential (MEP) monitoring in spine surgery may assist surgeons in taking corrective measures to prevent neurologic deficits. The efficacy of monitoring MEPs intraoperatively in patients with myelopathy from nondegenerative causes has not been quantified. We compared the sensitivity and specificity of intraoperative MEP ...

Customer Service Management (CSM) offers customers a “logical view” onto the service management of a service provider. CSM describes a management interface between customer and service provider and enables a customer to access service-specific management information about the subscribed service. The information flow across the CSM interface is bidirectional, from customer to service provider an...

STUDY DESIGN Gait analysis of patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) by using a sheet-type gait analysis system. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to compare the gait patterns of patients with CSM, evaluated by the Nurick grades, and to determine the threshold values of gait parameters predicting the occurrence of a fall by using a gait recorder. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Gait dis...

A meta-analysis was conducted to assess alterations in measures of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the patients of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), exploring the potential role of DTI as a diagnosis biomarker. A systematic search of all related studies written in English was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Cochrane comparing CSM patients with healthy controls...

A. A. sonkar, S. shrivastav, R. kumar, A. jain, and R. Roy surgery, csm medical university, lucknow, uttar pradesh, India, center for bio magnaetic resonance, SGPGI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, surgery, CSM Medical University( King Georges Medical University), Lucknow, uttar pradesh, India, Microbiology, CSM Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Center for Bio magnetic Resonance...

We investigate the computational complexity of an optical model of computation called the continuous space machine (CSM). We characterise worst case resource growth over time for each of the CSM’s ten operations with respect to seven resource measures. Many operations exhibit unreasonably large growth rates thus motivating restrictions on the CSM, in particular we give a restriction called the ...