Background Spinal injection has been an accepted part of conservative therapy for degenerative diseases. The drugs used can cause side effects and severe complications.
Anna Voelker +2 more
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Steroids Spinal Injections [PDF]
AbstractSpinal pain is a common condition leading to significant disability and high cost. Spinal injections have been demonstrated to be effective short-term treatments with cost–utility superior to numerous other treatments, including surgical procedures.
Stefano, Marcia +4 more
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Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Spine Injection for Axial and Radicular Pain: A Single Institution Early Experience [PDF]
Study Design Clinical audit via retrospective review of a database. Purpose To report an early experience using ultrasound-guided lumbar spinal injection for axial and radicular pain in an Asian multiethnic cohort.
Matthew Tay +5 more
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Spinal anesthesia in elective lumbar spinal surgery [PDF]
Spinal anesthesia (SA) is gaining recognition as a safe and efficacious regional alternative to general anesthesia for elective lumbar surgery. However, unfamiliarity with management issues related to its use has limited the adoption of awake spine ...
Nicholas S. Hernandez +4 more
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Lumbar Spinal Steroid Injections and Infection Risk after Spinal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Lumbar spinal steroid injections (LSSI) are universally used as preferred diagnostic or therapeutic treatment options before major spinal surgeries. Some recent studies have reported higher risks of surgical-site infection (SSI) for spinal surgeries ...
Harshadkumar A. Patel +4 more
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Effects caused by the spinal administration of ketamine S (+) 5% with no preservatives, using a single puncture, and located on the spinal cord and meninges in rabbits [PDF]
PURPOSE:To evaluate the effect of ketamine S (+) 5% with no preservatives and administered as a subarachnoid single puncture on the spinal cord and meninges of rabbits.METHODS:Twenty young adult female rabbits, each weighing 3500-5000 g and having a ...
José Admirço Lima Filho +7 more
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Nusinersen injections in adults and children with spinal muscular atrophy: a single-center experience [PDF]
PurposeNusinersen is a drug approved in December 2016 for treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). We want to share our initial experience with image-guided, non-image-guided, and port-delivered nusinersen injections in a large single-center SMA ...
Can Özütemiz +2 more
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PURPOSEWe aimed to retrospectively correlate 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) metabolic activity with lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and epidural steroid injection sites in patients with symptomatic degenerative disease of the ...
Michelle Lam +2 more
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Hemianopia: A complication of epidural injection in a patient with arachnoid cyst – case report
Epidural injections are routinely used for short-term management of radicular pain and chronic low back pain. Prescription of this intervention, in the presence of intracranial abnormalities, is a topic of debate.
Venkata S Rendu, Behzad Eftekhar
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Mycobacterium xenopi native vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis: Case & review of published cases
Mycobacterium xenopi is a rare cause of spinal osteomyelitis and discitis. Here we report the case of a 68-year-old woman with history of splenectomy for Felty’s syndrome who developed M.
Daria Bekina-Sreenivasan +2 more
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