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Epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in Galicia, Spain: trends over a 20-year period.
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- The efficacy of telemedicine interventions on quality of life and depression in individuals with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global epidemiology of pediatric traumatic spinal cord injuries.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in Spain: A ten-year analysis of trend of clinical and demographic characteristics.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in Catalonia, Spain: a 50 years' experience of a referral center.Spinal cord series and cases · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of spinal cord injury and spinal cord injury-induced urinary tract stones in Taiwan: A 2005-2015 population-based cohort study.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2025Article
- Epidemiological age-based differences in traumatic spinal cord injury patients: A multicenter study based on 13,334 inpatients.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2025Observational
- Epidemiology of Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in Southeast Norway.Neurotrauma reports · 2025Article
- Impact of surgical timing on the outcomes of traumatic cervical spinal cord injury.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in the Himalayan Range and Sub-Himalayan region: A Retrospective Hospital Data-Based Study.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- Spinal cord injury: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Review
- Incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury worldwide: A systematic review, data integration, and update.World neurosurgery: X · 2023Review
- Surveying people with spinal cord injuries in Brazil to ascertain research priorities.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Trends in traumatic spinal cord injuries in Estonia from 1997 to 2018.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2023Article
- Incidence and prevalence of traumatic spinal cord injury in Canada using health administrative data.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on community integration, quality of life, depression and anxiety in people with chronic spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2022Observational
- Trends in the presentation and management of traumatic spinal cord lesions above T6: 20-Year experience in a tertiary-level hospital in Spain.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2022Observational
- Trends of epidemiological characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury in China, 2009-2018.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
- The association between economic indicators and the incidence of tetraplegia from traumatic spinal cord injury in Taiwan.BMC neurology · 2021Observational
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Abstract
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designObservational study with prospective and retrospective monitoring.
objectiveTo describe the epidemiological and demographic characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI), and to analyze its epidemiological changes.
settingUnidad de Lesionados Medulares, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, in Galicia (Spain).
methodsThe study included patients with TSCI who had been hospitalized between January 1995 and December 2014. Relevant data were extracted from the admissions registry and electronic health record.
resultsA total of 1195 patients with TSCI were admitted over the specified period of time; 76.4% male and 23.6% female. Mean patient age at injury was 50.20 years. Causes of injury were falls (54.2%), traffic accidents (37%), sports/leisure-related accidents (3.5%) and other traumatic causes (5.3%). Mean patient age increased significantly over time (from 46.40 to 56.54 years), and the number of cases of TSCI related to traffic accidents decreased (from 44.5% to 23.7%), whereas those linked to falls increased (from 46.9% to 65.6%). The most commonly affected neurological level was the cervical level (54.9%), increasing in the case of levels C1-C4 over time, and the most frequent ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association) grade was A (44.3%). The crude annual incidence rate was 2.17/100 000 inhabitants, decreasing significantly over time at an annual percentage rate change of -1.4%.
conclusionsThe incidence rate of TSCI tends to decline progressively. Mean patient age has increased over time and cervical levels C1-C4 are currently the most commonly affected ones. These epidemiological changes will eventually result in adjustments in the standard model of care for TSCI.
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