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ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2021

Spinal cord infarction. A case report and narrative review.

Federica Pigna, Silvia Lana, Carlotta Bellini, Laura Bonfanti, Michele Creta, Gianfranco Cervellin

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Review in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. [Medullary infarction secondary to endovascular treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm]Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2024
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  8. Prediction of bowel management independence after ischemic spinal cord injury.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Federica PignaEmergency Department, University Hospital of Parma. fpigna@ao.pr.it.
Silvia LanaNeuroradiology Unit, University Hospital of Parma. slana@ao.pr.it.
Carlotta BelliniEmergency Department, University Hospital of Parma. cbellini@ao.pr.it.
Laura BonfantiEmergency Department, University Hospital of Parma. labonfanti@ao.pr.it.
Michele CretaEmergency Department, University Hospital of Parma. mcreta@ao.pr.it.
Gianfranco CervellinEmergency Department, University Hospital of Parma, Italy. gcervellin@ao.pr.it.
University of Parma · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal cord infarction is a rare but severe disorder, consistently less frequent than ischemic brain injury. It constitutes only 1-2% of all neurological vascular emergencies. Here we describe a case of spinal cord infarction in a 68-year-old Caucasian man without any neurological problem in his clinical history. The patient presented to the Emergency Department complaining for sudden onset of lower limbs weakness, as well as pain and mild loss of sensitivity in both legs. These symptoms suddenly arose after a 10 minutes bicycle race. He underwent a CT angiography, which confirmed the presence of a fusiform aneurysm of infra-renal abdominal aorta with thrombotic apposition on right lateral side and some ulcerated thrombi. As such, the patient underwent a spinal cord Magnetic Resonance Imaging, that showed images compatible with an acute ischemic injury (infarction) from D11 to medullary cone. He was then treated with low molecular weight heparin, aspirin, and methylprednisolone, and was then admitted to the Stroke Unit. He gradually regained lower limbs sensitivity totally, but the strength was only partially restored. Although a rare entity, Emergency Physicians should always keep in mind this possibility when evaluating patients with sudden loss of sensitivity and/or strength in their lower limbs.

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InfarctionSpinal CordAgedHumansIschemiaMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalePain

Identifiers

PMID33944857
PMCPMC8142748
OpenAlexW3157586558

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