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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Managing intrathecal administration of nusinersen in adolescents and adults with 5q-spinal muscular atrophy and previous spinal surgery [PDF]
Background: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease of lower motor neurons associated with frequent occurrence of spinal deformity.
Rodrigo de Holanda Mendonça +8 more
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Background Spinal epidural lipomatosis is an uncommon source of neurogenic claudication. We present two cases of spinal epidural lipomatosis as it relates to diagnosis, management, and a possible association with common medical intervention.
Keith M. Silcox +4 more
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Stem Cell Clinical Trials in Spinal Cord Injury: A Brief Review of Studies in the United States
Background: Although many therapeutic approaches have been attempted to treat spinal cord injury, cellular transplantation offers the greatest promise in reconstituting the architecture of the damaged cord.
Andrew Platt +2 more
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Two Cases of Iatrogenic Lumbar Foraminal Disc Herniations
Study Design. A case report. Objective. We report two cases of iatrogenic deterioration of lumbar foraminal disc herniations following lumbar disc injections. Summary of Background Data. Complications associated with discography were reported.
Ryota Taniguchi +4 more
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and feasibility of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided periradicular nerve root injection therapy (PRT) using a 0.55 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system with fast dynamic imaging in a ...
Saher Saeed +10 more
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Facet joint injections for management of low back pain: a clinically focused review [PDF]
Lumbar facet joints have been implicated in chronic low back pain in up to 45% of patients with low back pain (LBP). Facet joint pain diagnosis and management are always challenging for pain physicians.
Hyung-Sun Won +2 more
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Treatment of severe pain in a patient with a cervical spinal cord injury at C5–7 level using an intrathecal targeted drug delivery system - A case report - [PDF]
Background Patients with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) can experience pain refractory to aggressive multimodal therapies. Here, we report the use of an intrathecal targeted drug delivery (ITDD) system to treat severe pain in patients with cervical ...
Yeong-Min Yoo +5 more
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Spinal Injections for Pain Management [PDF]
Image-guided spinal injection is commonly performed in symptomatic patients to decrease pain severity, confirm the pain generator, and delay or avoid surgery. This article focuses on the radiologist as spine interventionist and addresses the following four topics relevant to the radiologist who performs corticosteroid injections for pain management: (a)
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Energetic electron precipitation during sawtooth injections [PDF]
International audienceWe present simultaneous riometer observations of cosmic noise absorption in the nightside and dawn-noon sectors during sawtooth particle injections during 18 April 2002.
Donovan, E. F. +13 more
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