Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review

Thoracic disc herniations (TDHs) are very rare. While most common in the setting of trauma, other etiologies have been documented. Here, we present a case of spontaneous TDHs in the setting of tobacco abuse and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causing acute paraplegia. We review spontaneous TDHs,...

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Autores principales: Whitney, Eric, Kiessling, John W, Reier, Louis, Hamann, Kyle, Arshad, Mohammad, Ramnot, Ajay, Fowler, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540541
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31544
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author Whitney, Eric
Kiessling, John W
Reier, Louis
Hamann, Kyle
Arshad, Mohammad
Ramnot, Ajay
Fowler, James
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description Thoracic disc herniations (TDHs) are very rare. While most common in the setting of trauma, other etiologies have been documented. Here, we present a case of spontaneous TDHs in the setting of tobacco abuse and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causing acute paraplegia. We review spontaneous TDHs, associated risk factors, and the possible role of COVID-19 in the pathophysiology. 
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spelling pubmed-97547432022-12-19 Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review Whitney, Eric Kiessling, John W Reier, Louis Hamann, Kyle Arshad, Mohammad Ramnot, Ajay Fowler, James Cureus Neurosurgery Thoracic disc herniations (TDHs) are very rare. While most common in the setting of trauma, other etiologies have been documented. Here, we present a case of spontaneous TDHs in the setting of tobacco abuse and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causing acute paraplegia. We review spontaneous TDHs, associated risk factors, and the possible role of COVID-19 in the pathophysiology.  Cureus 2022-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9754743/ /pubmed/36540541 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31544 Text en Copyright © 2022, Whitney et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurosurgery
Whitney, Eric
Kiessling, John W
Reier, Louis
Hamann, Kyle
Arshad, Mohammad
Ramnot, Ajay
Fowler, James
Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Non-traumatic Spontaneous Paraplegia Secondary to Thoracic Disc Herniations in the Setting of Tobacco Abuse and COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort non-traumatic spontaneous paraplegia secondary to thoracic disc herniations in the setting of tobacco abuse and covid-19: a case report and literature review
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540541
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31544
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