Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is a debilitating disease that poses significant functional
and economic burden on both the individual and societal levels. Prognosis is dependent on …

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to estimate the current lifetime economic burden of
traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) in Canada from a societal perspective, including both …

Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) result in devastating lifelong disability for patients and their
families. The initial mechanical trauma is followed by a damaging secondary injury cascade …

Our understanding of the pathophysiological processes that comprise the early secondary
phases of spinal cord injury such as spinal cord ischemia, cellular excitotoxicity, ionic …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects 1.3 million North Americans, with more than half occurring
after trauma. In Brazil, few studies have evaluated the epidemiology of SCI with an estimated …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is characterised by profound respiratory compromise secondary to
the level of loss of motor, sensory and autonomic control associated with the injury. This …

Spinal cord injury (SCI), as one of the intractable diseases in clinical medicine, affects
thousands of human beings, and the pathologic changes after injury have been a hot spot …

Current guidelines for the care of patients with acute spinal cord injuries (SCIs) recommend
maintaining mean arterial pressure (MAP) values of 85–90 mm Hg for 7 days after an acute …

Importance The Fragility Index (FI) is the minimum number of participants in a randomized
clinical trial (RCT) whose status would have to change from a nonevent (not experiencing …

To determine the influence of time from injury to surgery on neurological recovery and length
of stay (LOS) in an observational cohort of individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) …