Disrupted Bone Metabolism in Long-Term Bedridden Patients.

Background: Bedridden patients are at risk of osteoporosis and fractures, although the long-term bone metabolic processes in these patients are poorly understood. Therefore, we aimed to determine how long-term bed confinement affects bone metabolism.

Methods: This study included 36 patients who had been bedridden from birth due to severe immobility.

[Dissociated sensory loss caused by acupuncture injury to the cervical spinal cord].

A 31-year-old woman developed dissociated sensory loss below the right C-3 dermatome within an hour after acupuncture therapy for the left posterior neck pain. Moxa has been applied on the top of the acupuncture needle: Moxa needle. T2-weighted MR images on the following day showed a high-signal cord lesion at the C1/2 level on the left.

Thoracic myelopathy due to idiopathic epidural ossifications in a child: a case report.

Study Design: A rare case of thoracic myelopathy due to epidural ossification in a child.

Objective: To determine a differential diagnosis of thoracic myelopathy.

Summary Of Background Data: Ectopic ossification is one of the common lesions that can cause thoracic myelopathy.

Evaluation of postoperative residual spinal deformity and patient outcome in idiopathic scoliosis patients in Japan using the scoliosis research society outcomes instrument.

Study Design: This study clarifies the correlation between the components of the Scoliosis Research Society Outcomes Instrument (SRS-24) and the radiographic parameters after surgery in Japanese idiopathic scoliosis patients.

Objectives: To investigate the correlation between the magnitude of back deformity after scoliosis surgery and the components of the SRS-24.

Summary Of Background Data: Patient outcomes for Japanese scoliosis patients using the SRS-24 have not been fully investigated.

Use of the scoliosis research society outcomes instrument to evaluate patient outcome in untreated idiopathic scoliosis patients in Japan: part II: relation between spinal deformity and patient outcomes.

Study Design: This study clarifies the relation between the results of the Scoliosis Research Society Outcomes Instrument (SRS-24) and radiographic parameters of back deformity in Japanese idiopathic scoliosis patients.

Objectives: To investigate the relation between magnitude of back deformity and results of the SRS-24 in untreated patients.

Summary Of Background Data: In idiopathic scoliosis, it is necessary to clarify the relation between patient-perceived outcomes of the deformity and magnitude of back deformity before considering treatment.

Use of the scoliosis research society outcomes instrument to evaluate patient outcome in untreated idiopathic scoliosis patients in Japan: part I: comparison with nonscoliosis group: preliminary/limited review in a Japanese population.

Study Design: This preliminary study evaluates untreated Japanese patients with idiopathic scoliosis using the Scoliosis Research Society Outcomes Instrument (SRS-24).

Objectives: To determine the baseline patient outcome score using the SRS-24 for untreated Japanese scoliosis patients compared with a nonscoliosis group.

Summary Of Background Data: The SRS instrument with 24 questions was developed to help evaluate patient-perceived outcomes of idiopathic scoliosis treatment.

Diagnosis of spinal disease with ultrafine flexible fiberscopes in patients with chronic pain.

Study Design: Spinal epidural and subarachnoid spaces were observed with the newly developed fine flexible fiberscopes in 55 patients with chronic pain.

Objectives: To evaluate the fiberscopes as diagnostic tools for spinal canal disease.

Summary Of Background Data: Fine flexible fiberscopes make it possible to visualize the entire length of the spinal subarachnoid space without major complications, and they may be of value for the diagnosis of certain spinal canal diseases.

A nonthrombogenic gas-permeable membrane composed of a phospholipid polymer skin film adhered to a polyethylene porous membrane.

Polymer membranes are widely used in biomedical applications such as hemodialysis, membrane oxygenator, etc. When the membranes come in contact with blood or body fluids, protein adsorption and cell adhesion occur rapidly. Nonspecific protein adsorption and cell adhesion on the membranes induce not only various bio-rejections but also a decrease in their performance.

Cerebrospinal fluid nitric oxide metabolites are novel predictors of pain relief in degenerative lumbar diseases.

This study was undertaken to determine whether or not nitric oxide metabolites (NO(2)(-) plus NO(3)(-): NOx levels) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) would be predictors of treatment outcome in patients with degenerative lumbar diseases (DLD) including lumbar disc herniation (LDH) and lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LCS). The NOx levels in CSF were measured using an NO analyzer based on the Griess method. Six healthy volunteers and 18 patients with painless diseases were included in the control group.