Posttraumatic ascending myelopathy after spinal cord injury in a young man: A case report

A 29‐year‐old man developed subacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy 5 days after a spinal cord injury. He developed a fever and a blood culture showed an Alkaligenes spp. infection. Despite antibiotic and high‐dose corticosteroid therapy, same neurological deficits persisted, and a follow‐up MRI...

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Autores principales: Esmaeilnia, Mostafa, Asadi, Mona, Sharara, Hussein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9353859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5997
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description A 29‐year‐old man developed subacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy 5 days after a spinal cord injury. He developed a fever and a blood culture showed an Alkaligenes spp. infection. Despite antibiotic and high‐dose corticosteroid therapy, same neurological deficits persisted, and a follow‐up MRI showed atrophy and swelling in the cervical cord.
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spelling pubmed-93538592022-08-09 Posttraumatic ascending myelopathy after spinal cord injury in a young man: A case report Esmaeilnia, Mostafa Asadi, Mona Sharara, Hussein Clin Case Rep Case Report A 29‐year‐old man developed subacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy 5 days after a spinal cord injury. He developed a fever and a blood culture showed an Alkaligenes spp. infection. Despite antibiotic and high‐dose corticosteroid therapy, same neurological deficits persisted, and a follow‐up MRI showed atrophy and swelling in the cervical cord. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9353859/ /pubmed/35949408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5997 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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