Mishaal Alkhaldi
King Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Title: Does Spinal Ischemia reperfusion injury respond to Rehabilitation?
Biography:
Abstract:
Spinal ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is one of the worrisome issues to the neurosurgeons, as it plays a big role in increasing length of stay and cost of hospitalization. Unfortunately, all the investigations attempted to control the IRI found no clear solution. This is possibly due to many factors such as the presence of a large number of the experimental protocols. In addition, the complete understanding of the IRI mechanism is not fully understood yet.
One of the possible complications for the spinal IRI is paraplegia. Incomplete paraplegia has been proven to be effectively treated by neuro-rehabilitation programs .However, no study was found in the literature investigating the effectiveness of the neuro-rehabilitation therapy for this injury.
In this case report we discuss a case with spinal IRI led to paraplegia leaving the patient bed bound.This patient underwent an intensive rehabilitation in a dedicated unit. Fortunately, patient was discharged fully independent and ambulatory.