BACKGROUND Continuous intrathecal labor analgesia produces rapid analgesia or anesthesia and allows substantial flexibility in medication choice. The US Food and Drug Administration, in 1992, removed intrathecal microcatheters (27-32 gauge) from clinical use after reports of neurologic injury in nonobstetric patients. This study examined the safety and efficacy of a 28-gauge intrathecal cathete...

Of the 185 carotid and vertebral fistulas treated by the authors over the past 10 years, five developed neurologic deficits after abrupt closure of their fistulas. The earliest case, treated initially by proximal surgical carotid occlusion, presented 32 years later with cerebral steal symptoms from the large, long-standing carotid cavernous fistula. Upon completion of a surgical trapping proced...

BACKGROUND Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes (PNS) pose quite an uncommon neurological complication, affecting less than 1% of patients with breast cancer. Nearly one third of these patients lack detectable onconeural antibodies (ONAs), and improvement in neurologic deficits with concomitant cancer treatments is achieved in less than 30% of cases. CASE PRESENTATION A 42-year-old, premenopau...

PURPOSE To examine the incidence of neurologic complications associated with modern cerebral angiography and to assess patient characteristics associated with an increased risk of complications. METHODS One thousand consecutive cerebral angiographic procedures were evaluated prospectively. Examinations were performed using transfemoral catheterization and film-screen methods. For purposes of ...

STUDY DESIGN A consecutive retrospective cohort study from 2008 to 2013 at a single tertiary-care institution was conducted. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to characterize recovery from pain and neurologic deficit after surgery for vertebral osteomyelitis (VO), and identify incidence of postoperative adverse events. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA A minority of patients with VO require surge...

OBJECTIVE To study neurologic complications after heart transplant. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Cardiac transplant program at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. PATIENTS We retrospectively studied 313 patients who underwent heart transplant at Mayo Clinic Rochester from January 1, 1988, through October 31, 2006. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Neurologic symptoms, neurologic compli...

sodium valproate and tomato extract have been studied in different experimental models of epilepsy individually. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of lycopene on the antiepileptic effects of sodium valproate against pentylenetetrazol-induced kindling in mice. swiss albino mice of either sex were randomly divided into 5 groups, with each group containing 8 mice. these group...

Perioperative neuropathy is a known complication of malpositioning during anaesthesia. Somatosensory evoked potentials are used for detecting such a complication in selected surgeries. Most reports of intraoperative nerve injuries due to malpositioning are limited to injuries to the peripheral nervous system, and there have been no previously reported cases of somatosensory evoked potential mon...

Heroin inhalation leukoencephalopathy (HIL) is a rare complication of vaporized heroin leading to white matter degeneration resulting in range neurologic disturbances including softened speech, cerebellar ataxia, behavioral changes, gait abnormalities, and even respiratory failure death the most severe cases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) commonly demonstrates bilateral hyperintensities affe...