Browse the latest research summaries in the field of medical imaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Pharmaceuticals, 2024 • January 4, 2024
This study was an open label, single arm, prospective pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of treating people with TSCI with oral selenium and vitamin E. Four subjects completed the full twelve-mon...
KEY FINDING: Combination treatment with vitamin E and selenium was demonstrated as safe for TSCI patients, with no adverse events related to study medications.
Eur J Neurol, 2024 • January 1, 2024
This five-year study uses MRI to track changes in the spinal cord and brain after acute spinal cord injury (SCI), focusing on lesion dynamics, neurodegeneration, and their impact on patient recovery. ...
KEY FINDING: The size of the spinal cord lesion decreases significantly within the first month after injury, with tissue bridges becoming more defined.
Cureus, 2024 • January 11, 2024
This case report describes a rare instance of adult spinal cord injury without neuroimaging abnormality (SCIWNA) following a road accident in a 52-year-old woman, emphasizing the clinical nuances and ...
KEY FINDING: The patient presented with tetraplegia (AIS D) at C4, showing subtle improvements during inpatient care.
medRxiv preprint, 2024 • April 21, 2024
This study introduces SCIseg, a deep learning-based tool for the automatic segmentation of the spinal cord and intramedullary lesions from T2-weighted MRI scans of SCI patients. SCIseg was trained and...
KEY FINDING: SCIseg, an open-source automatic method, was trained and evaluated on a dataset of 191 spinal cord injury patients from three sites for segmenting spinal cord and T2-weighted lesions.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2024 • July 1, 2024
This study investigated cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) compared to noninjured controls using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a hyperc...
KEY FINDING: Participants with SCI showed a longer CVR component (tau) in the grey matter compared to controls, indicating a slower response time in brain blood vessel reactivity.
Cureus, 2024 • May 17, 2024
This report presents two cases of iSS, with a diagnosis confirmed through MRI, exhibiting distinctive clinical presentations, and shedding light on the remarkable heterogeneity of this condition. The ...
KEY FINDING: Infratentorial superficial siderosis can manifest with diverse clinical presentations, including ataxia, hearing loss, cognitive dysfunction, back pain, and spasticity.
Diagnostics, 2024 • August 30, 2024
This prospective study evaluates a large variety of HHUS devices in a comprehensive head-to-head comparison by several experts. The primary goal is to make a direct comparison of B-image quality, hand...
KEY FINDING: Vscan Air and SonoEye Chison achieved the best overall ratings, differing significantly from the other devices (p < 0.01).
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2025 • September 17, 2024
This retrospective case series investigated the use of diaphragm muscle ultrasound to predict ventilator weaning outcomes in patients with cervical spinal cord injury (cSCI). The study found that a di...
KEY FINDING: A thickening ratio (TR) of ≥1.2 was the optimal predictor for ventilator weaning outcomes.
Scientific Data, 2024 • September 23, 2024
The study introduces an open-access lumbosacral spine MRI dataset with enhanced resolution of spinal nerve root structures to facilitate research in spinal cord neuromodulation. The dataset includes M...
KEY FINDING: The dataset provides enhanced resolution of spinal nerve root structures through specific MRI sequences (CISS, DESS, T2-TSE).
J. Clin. Med., 2024 • November 13, 2024
This study retrospectively analyzed the utility of temporary spinal mapping to guide permanent implantation of spinal cord epidural stimulation (SCES) leads in two participants with spinal cord injury...
KEY FINDING: MRI reconstruction revealed that percutaneous leads were inadvertently placed differently between temporary and permanent implantations, impacting muscle activation.