objectives this study aimed to examine the relationship between patients’ anthropometric characteristics and depth of spinal needle insertion to the subarachnoid cavity. patients and methods 385 patients with asa class i – ii, aged 18 - 65 years and undergoing elective surgery of the lower abdomen and extremities under spinal anesthesia, were selected for this cross-sectional study. the patient...

background & aim: patients with spinal cord injury (sci) impose a heavy burden on health care system. awareness on prevalence and incidence of sci is important because this would show the necessity of prevention. this study aimed to investigate the epidemiology and types of traumatic spinal cord injuries in a trauma referral center in guilan. methods & materials/patients: this is a descriptive ...

initial presentation of diastematomyelia is rarely seen in adults. the purpose of this case report is to present a case of clinically silent diastematomyelia unrecognized into adulthood and review of the literature. a 53-year-old persian man was admitted to our hospital with gait disturbance, weakness of the right lower extremity, sensory loss of the left and right lower extremity of two weeks’...

background and purpose: this study was designed in order to compare the effects of spinal and epidural analgesia on labour and also several maternal and fetal factors in vaginal delivery. materials and methods: the study was a randomized clinical trail and participatnts were 120 gravid 1 and gravid 2 women in the active phase of delivery, admitted to the labour room of fatemieh hospital in hame...

background: finding the safe location of spinal cord for cerebrospinal fluid (csf) during surgical procedures is very important due to its various nature for each patient as well as its potential peripheral nervous system hazards. the aim of this study was to find the relationship between the location of conus medullaris (cm) and gender, age and body mass index (bmi) in order to minimize the po...

objective(s): neurotrophins (nts) exert various effects on neuronal system. growing evidence indicates that nts are involved in the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain. however, the exact role of these proteins in modulating nociceptive signaling requires being defined. thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of spinal nerve ligation (snl) on nts activation in the lumbar dorsal ...