Spinal cord stroke is rare accounting for 0.3-1% of all strokes and is classified into upper
(cervical) and lower (thoracolumbar) strokes. Patients present with severe deficits but later …

Unlike those of the brain, advances in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of the human spinal
cord have been challenged by the more complicated and inhomogeneous anatomy of the …

Opinion statement There are no standard guidelines for treatment of spinal cord ischemia
due to how rare it is and the diverse etiology and presentations involved. In addition, to date …

Background This study aims to investigate the etiology and prognosis of spinal cord
infarction (SCI). Methods Over a period of 16 years, we retrospectively analyzed 31 patients …

Background: Intravenous alteplase is a drug treatment administered as an emergency
measure within the early hours of patient admission. Objectives: This study aimed to …

Anterior spinal artery syndrome (ASAS) is often a devastating spinal stroke occurring when
the anterior spinal artery or one of its supplying anterior medullary arteries are occluded …

Abstract Background and Objective Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is a rare type of stroke, with
no proposed classification or diagnostic criterium widely accepted and used in daily clinical …

Spinal cord stroke accounts for about 0.3% of all strokes in our department. Thirty-two
patients (15 males, 17 females; mean age 63.3 years) treated in the period 1995–2010 were …

Methods The study was performed in accordance with a previously published protocol.
PubMed, Web of Science and Embase were searched using the keywords …

We report the case of a 62-year-old Caucasian man, an ex-smoker, who presented to the
emergency room complaining of intense lower back pain followed by immediate bilateral …