Overweight and smoking promote recurrent lumbar disk herniation after discectomy.

Purpose: Recurrent lumbar disk herniation (rLDH) following lumbar microdiscectomy is common. While several risk factors for primary LDH have been described, risk factors for rLDH have only sparsely been investigated. We evaluate the effect of Body mass index (BMI) and smoking on the incidence and timing of rLDH.

Multiple extraspinal recurrences of ependymoma 13 years after spinal cordectomy: case report.

Ependymomas of the spinal cord remain confined to the CNS and vary in presentation, depending on WHO grade. Higher-grade lesions usually cannot be surgically removed due to their infiltrative growth pattern. Spinal cordectomy has been proposed as a rescue treatment to improve survival in patients with high-grade as well as recurrent lesions.

Proposal for the Rapid Reversal of Coagulopathy in Patients with Nonoperative Head Injuries on Anticoagulants and/or Antiplatelet Agents: A Case Study and Literature Review.

Background: Emergency room physicians, trauma teams, and neurosurgeons are seeing increasing numbers of head-injured patients on anticoagulants, many of whom are nonoperative. Head injury and anticoagulation can lead to devastating consequences. These patients need immediate evaluation and often reversal of anticoagulation in order to decrease their high rates of morbidity and mortality.

Septohippocampal Neuromodulation Improves Cognition after Traumatic Brain Injury.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) often results in persistent attention and memory deficits that are associated with hippocampal dysfunction. Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) is used to treat neurological disorders related to motor dysfunction, the effectiveness of stimulation to treat cognition remains largely unknown. In this study, adult male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rats underwent a lateral fluid percussion or sham injury followed by implantation of bipolar electrodes in the medial septal nucleus (MSN) and ipsilateral hippocampus.