Fashion designer and serial entrepreneur, Toyin Lawani has detailed her harrowing experience with epidural anesthesia. Lawani ...

Steven Kirshblum, MD, Gail Forrest, PhD, and Claudia Angeli, PhD, are proud to announce the successful implantation of a spinal cord epidural stimulator in an individual with paralysis.

Blood cultures or cultures from epidural ... persists. Spinal instability, deteriorating neurological status, lack of availability of emergency spinal surgery or MRI facilities, an abscess that ...

An MRI of the thoracic spine showed an enhancing lesion involving T6 and T7 on T2 weighted images compressing the spinal cord (Fig 2 ... cultures from the epidural fluid were sent for analysis.

aDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada bDivision of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada ...

1 Second Department of Spinal Surgery, The Second People’s Hospital ... Figure 2. Sagittal T1-weighted MRI showing that the epidural abscess has been cleared and decompressed adequately (white ...

to accommodate the clinic. Guy Boswall says the clinic plans to recruit from across Canada and will try not to encroach on the MRI staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. (Wayne Thibodeau/CBC ...

Figure 1. Postoperative thoracic MRI revealed subdural hematoma in front of the spinal cord at the T4-8 vertebral plane and epidural hematoma behind the spinal cord at the T12-L2 vertebral plane (Red ...

Common treatment options include: Conservative measures: Bed rest, hydration, and avoidance of activities that increase pressure in the brain or spinal cord. Epidural blood patch: A procedure ...

A doctor explained to reporters that a necessary procedure was performed to take out the knife lodged into the actor’s body, at the same time, addressed a “spinal fluid leak" caused by the injury. The ...