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Reg Anesth Pain Med
January 2025
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Hemorrhagic complications associated with regional anesthesia are extremely rare. The fifth edition of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine's Evidence-Based Guidelines on regional anesthesia in the patient receiving antithrombotic or thrombolytic therapy reviews the published evidence since 2018 and provides guidance to help avoid this potentially catastrophic complication.The fifth edition of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine's Evidence-Based Guidelines on regional anesthesia in the patient receiving antithrombotic or thrombolytic therapy uses similar methodology as previous editions but is reorganized and significantly condensed.
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December 2024
Orthopaedic Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore, SGP.
This case report describes a 70-year-old male presenting with limb weakness, urinary retention and tandem cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis with complicating white cord syndrome, a rare reperfusion injury post decompression surgery. Initially admitted following an unwitnessed fall, the patient's neurological examination indicated that progressive weakness of the limbs and sensory loss etiology is cervical and lumbar spondylosis with severe spinal canal stenosis, confirmed by imaging. Due to rapid deterioration, he underwent C5 corpectomy, cervical decompression and fusion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpine (Phila Pa 1976)
January 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, Bandra, Mumbai, India.
Study Design: A systematic literature review and consensus using Delphi method.
Objective: The aim was to formulate consensus recommendations regarding the natural history, diagnosis, classification and optimal treatment of Os Odontoideum with global applicability.
Summary Of Background: Os odontoideum (OO) is a rare anomaly of the cranio-vertebral junction (CVJ).
Int J Surg Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Vascular Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth 6000, Australia; University of Western Australia, School of Surgery, Perth 6000, Australia. Electronic address:
Introduction: We present a unique case of acute aortic occlusion secondary to infective endocarditis (IE).
Presentation Of Case: An Aboriginal Australian woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with fever, confusion, tachycardia, and tachypnoea and had cold, pulseless, insensate, and paralysed lower limbs. Computed tomography angiography revealed multifocal occlusion of the distal aorta and lower limb vessels.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
spondylitis is a rare fungal infection, primarily occurring in immunocompromised patients, although cases in immunocompetent individuals have also been reported. While is commonly associated with pulmonary infections, it can also cause spondylitis. Patients typically present with back pain, limb numbness, and neurological compression symptoms.
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