Spinal Surgery
Basal ganglia hemorrhage in a case report following spinal surgery
... After almost 4 weeks in the neuro-ICU, the patient eventually regained spontaneous movements of her right upper and lower extremities. However, she con- tinued to have extensor posturing in the left upper extremity and ...
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Thromboprophylaxis in spinal surgery: a survey
... In January 2010, NICE published updated guidance on VTE prophylaxis – CG92 Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients admitted to hospital. These guidelines advise that surgical practitioners should offer ...
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Spinal Anesthesia with Isobaric Tetracaine in Patients with Previous Lumbar Spinal Surgery
... While there was only 1 case in which we failed to detect the epidural space during CSEA in Control group, there were 2 failed cases in PLSS group, each of whom received extensive spinal fusion operations. This was ...
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Efficiency of spinal anesthesia versus general anesthesia for lumbar spinal surgery: a retrospective analysis of 544 patients
... one spinal hematoma, which was evacuated without any long-term neurological deficits, and neither group experienced a ...diskectomy spinal surgery, and was shown to be the more expedient anesthetic ...
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Management of giant pseudomeningoceles after spinal surgery
... Pseudomeningocele is an uncommon complication of spinal surgery [1-3]. It is an extradural accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the soft tissue of the back that extravasates through the dural tear ...
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Postoperative meningitis after spinal surgery: a review of 21 cases from 20,178 patients
... There are several limitations to this study. First, not all of the patients had a definite diagnosis of bacterial menin- gitis according to the CSF cultures or analysis. However, for patients with a bleeding tendency or ...
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Wound drains in posterior spinal surgery: a meta-analysis
... Background: The use of drains following posterior spinal surgery is controversial. Thus, the aim of this meta-analysis was to review the advantages and adverse effects of closed suction drainage systems in ...
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National audit of post operative management in spinal surgery
... of spinal patients is not ...amongst spinal surgeons in the United ...of spinal practice rather than details of practice specific to each sur- gical ...
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Relationship between spinal magnetic resonance imaging findings and candidacy for spinal surgery
... by spinal abnormalities seen on MRI, rather than based on the correlation between patients’ symp- toms and their imaging ...of spinal MRI abnormalities and the patient’s likelihood of being deemed a ...
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Function after spinal treatment, exercise and rehabilitation (FASTER): improving the functional outcome of spinal surgery
... join the programme at any time rather than in ‘batches’. There will be a maximum of ten patients per class, located at the hospital where the surgery was performed. The classes will be standardised using the ...
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Anterior spinal surgery alone in the surgical treatment of thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis: a prospective study
... columbar spinal TB who surgically treated with one stage anterior ...for surgery were spinal instability (figure 1), involvement of the thoracolumbar spinal region, a failure of medical ...
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Imaging of lumbar spinal surgery complications
... Postoperative fluid collection in the operative bed may repre- sent seroma, CSF collection, haematoma, or abscess and can cause symptoms by compression of the thecal sac or nerve roots. Haematoma presents in hours to ...
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Bed Mechanisms used in Spinal Cord Surgery: A Review
... The spinal cord surgery requires a specific position of a ...for spinal surgery are very costly starting from 2 ...the spinal cord surgery is also too ...of surgery and ...
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Inactivation Methods for Prions
... cerebral surgery, craniotomy surgery, orthopaedic spinal surgery and ophthalmic surgery are performed for high-risk patients or individuals with prion diseases, it is neces- sary to ...
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Motor Injury by Compression of Spinal Cord at Cervical Level During Surgery
... We established as a transitory complication that which did not last after three months, and as a permanent complication, that which remained past this time. Cerebrospinal fluid leakage (CSF) is a potential complication ...
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Accuracy and reproducibility of a retrospective outcome assessment for lumbar spinal stenosis surgery
... Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the most common indi- cation for lumbar spinal surgery in people aged over 65 years ...of surgery are poor in one third of patients [1,2], emphasizing the need ...
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Comparison of prognostic scores and surgical approaches to treat spinal metastatic tumors: A review of 57 cases
... secondary spinal metastases prior to spinal surgery for metastatic malignancy ...[1,3]. Spinal metastasis is associ- ated with pain and neurological deficits, which greatly impair quality of ...
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Does preemptive gabapentin modulate cytokine response in total knee arthroplasty? A placebo controlled study
... before surgery, to evaluate postoperative pain following spinal surgery, and they reported that gabapentin reduced pain scores in the early postoperative period and morphine consump- tion, monitored ...
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Rehabilitation following surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: a Cochrane review
... require surgery and there is some evidence that facet joint and epidural injections may be effective in its management [Manchikanti ...overall, surgery seems to be better than conservative interventions ...
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Multimodal imaging guides surgical management in a preclinical spinal implant infection model
... aureus spinal implant infection was employed (27). Spinal surgery with implantation of an L-shaped implant and inoculation with bioluminescent ...the spinal implant surgery and ...
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