Browse the latest research summaries in the field of surgery for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Orthopaedic Surgery, 2021 • December 1, 2021
This study compared early versus delayed surgery for acute spinal cord injuries in Beijing, finding that early surgery may lead to better neurological recovery. Early surgery was associated with incre...
KEY FINDING: Patients who underwent early surgery had a significantly higher chance of at least a two-grade improvement on the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) compared to those with delayed surgery.
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2022 • December 16, 2021
The study analyzes 106 blunt renal trauma cases, with a focus on sports-related injuries, at a Level 1 Trauma Center in Austria. It finds that sports-related renal trauma is more likely to be isolated...
KEY FINDING: Sports-associated blunt renal trauma is more likely to occur isolated and has a lower risk of severe outcomes compared to other trauma mechanisms.
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 • December 20, 2021
This retrospective study investigated the impact of ultra-early (<4 h) versus early (4–24 h) surgical intervention on neurological recovery in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI). While ...
KEY FINDING: Overall, there was no statistically significant difference in neurological recovery between the "ultra-early" and "early" surgery groups, although the ultra-early group showed a higher percentage of recovery (41.3% vs. 21.7%).
eBioMedicine, 2022 • February 1, 2022
This study investigates the therapeutic efficacy of combining ultra-purified human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (RECs) and a bioresorbable gel for IVD regeneration after discectomy in a sheep mo...
KEY FINDING: Co-culturing RECs and nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs) in the gel significantly increased gene expression of NPC markers, growth factors, and extracellular matrix compared to monocultures.
J. Pers. Med., 2022 • March 22, 2022
The present review focuses on key advances in machine and deep learning, allowing for multi-perspective pattern recognition across the entire information set of patients in spine surgery. This is the ...
KEY FINDING: The review focuses on key advances in machine and deep learning, allowing for multi-perspective pattern recognition across the entire information set of patients in spine surgery.
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2022 • May 21, 2022
This retrospective cohort study aimed to differentiate geriatric odontoid fractures into stable (SFs) and unstable fractures (UFs) based on angulation and displacement, correlating this classification...
KEY FINDING: The classification into SFs and UFs was significant for its angulation (P = 0.0006) and displacement (P < 0.0001).
Medicina, 2022 • April 27, 2022
This study evaluated the clinical outcomes of minimal-invasive percutaneous dorsal screw-rod system for thoracolumbar fracture stabilization, focusing on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and ...
KEY FINDING: Minimal-invasive stabilization of thoracolumbar fractures utilizing a dorsal percutaneous approach resulted in significant PROM outcome improvements for up to 1 year of follow-up.
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022 • June 3, 2022
This study compared two methods (GVR-A and GVR-B) for evaluating spinal cord hyperechogenicity intensity using intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) ...
KEY FINDING: GVR-B has better repeatability of gray value measurement, smaller relative standard deviation (RSD%) compared with GVR-A.
Cureus, 2022 • May 30, 2022
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) initiate a complex pathological process, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of intrinsic procedures for ensuring optimal treatment and recovery conditions. Vascular...
KEY FINDING: Endogenous angiogenesis, while triggered by SCI and ischemia, is frequently inadequate to address the progressive local ischemia and cell death.
J Neurosurg Case Lessons, 2021 • December 20, 2021
This case report describes an extremely rare instance of intradural extramedullary (IDEM) metastasis of parotid acinic cell carcinoma (ACC) in a 79-year-old male with a 29-year history of the disease....
KEY FINDING: The patient presented with progressive cervical myelopathy 29 years after initial diagnosis of parotid ACC, indicating a rare late recurrence and metastasis.