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Bone mineral content of the lumbar spine and lower extremities years after spinal cord lesion
Bone mineral content (BMC) was measured by dual photon absorptiometry in the lumbar spine, femoral neck and shaft, and proximal tibia in 26 individuals with spinal cord lesions sustained 2 to 25 years previous...
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Traumatic spinal cord injuries in Greenland 1965–1986
During the period 1 January 1965 to 31 December 1986, 27 patients were admitted to the Rehabilitation Hospital in Hornbaek after traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) sustained in Greenland. The commonest cause o...
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Peroral treatment with ciprofloxacin of patients with spinal cord lesion and bacteriuria caused by multiply resistant bacteria
Eleven patients, median age 38 years, with spinal cord lesion (SCL) and urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by multiply resistant bacteria entered an open clinical trial of peroral ciprofloxacin 250 mg b.i.d....
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Epidemiology of spinal cord lesions in Denmark
Denmark has a population of about 5.2 million. The rehabilitation of spinal cord injured (SCI) takes place in two specialised rehabilitation hospitals. The incidence of new traumatic SCI admitted to these hosp...
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Effect of respiratory training with a mouth-nose-mask in tetraplegics
Ten tetraplegics, 8 males and 2 females, with a median age of 32 years participated in a scheduled 6 weeks training programme with a respiratory muscle training mouth-nose-mask (RMT-mask) with a fixed expirato...
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Spinal cord injury due to suicide attempts
During 1965 to 1987 45 patients were admitted to the Rehabilitation Hospital in Hornbaek, Denmark because of spinal cord injury (SCI) due to suicide attempts. The proportion of traumatic SCI due to this cause ...
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The prevalence of hyperhidrosis in patients with spinal cord injuries and an evaluation of the effect of dextropropoxyphene hydrochloride in therapy
The prevalence of annoying hyperhidrosis (HH) in patients with spinal cord traumatic lesions was investigated by a questionnaire. A total of 192 patients were sent the questionnaire, 154 patients answered, an...
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Transcutaneous nitroglycerin in the treatment of erectile dysfunction in spinal cord injured
We have tested the erectile effect of penile applicated nitroglycerin plasters (Transiderm-Nitro 10 mg/24 hours) in 17 spinal cord injured men, who had responded to intracavernous papaverine injections with er...
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Tracheostomy in spinal cord injured: frequency and follow up
Among 600 traumatic spinal cord injured (SCI) patients admitted during a 20 year period, 67 had a tracheostomy performed (11.2%). Of these 67 patients 46 had a cervical SCI. A concomitant thoracic trauma had o...
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Achondroplasia and spinal cord lesion. Three case reports
The most important complications encountered by achondroplastic dwarfs are neurological problems related to a narrowed spinal canal. Stenosis of the spinal canal is secondary to abnormalities of endochondral o...
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Indomethacin and disodium etidronate for the prevention of recurrence of heterotopic ossification after surgical resection. Two case reports
Two spinal cord injured patients had extensive heterotopic ossifications around their hips surgically removed. The use of disodium etidronate from 2 weeks presurgery to 2–5 months postsurgery and in particular...
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H-reflexes are less depressed following muscle stretch in spastic spinal cord injured patients than in healthy subjects
The size of the soleus H-reflex was measured after a slow (17 deg/s) passive stretch of ankle plantarflex ors and compared to its control size without muscle stretch in ten neurologically healthy subjects and ...
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Semen quality in the same man before and after spinal cord injury. Case report
The fertility of spinal cord injured men is severely impaired due to ejaculatory dysfunction and poor semen quality. No previous reports comparing the semen quality in the same man before and after spinal cord...
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Ejaculation induced by penile vibratory stimulation in men with spinal cord injuries. The importance of the vibratory amplitude
A total of 66 men with a spinal cord injury (SCI) and ejaculatory dysfunction were included in two different but comparable study populations I (n = 25) and II (n = 41). The level of lesion ranged from C2 to LI (...
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Reproducibility of Nordic Sleep Questionnaire in spinal cord injured
A recently proposed Nordic Sleep Questionnaire (NSQ) comprises 26 questions concerning qualitative and quantitative aspects of the respondent's sleep habits. Its reproducibility was evaluated in 32 spinal cord...
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Treatment of sleep apnoea in spinal cord injured patients
Little is known about sleep disorders in spinal cord injured (SCI) patients. Three SCI patients who reported severe daytime sleepiness and sleep complaints were evaluated with nocturnal polysomnography and oxy...
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Seminal somatostatin in men with spinal cord injury
Somatostatin is present in high concentrations in human seminal plasma. Semen was obtained from men with spinal cord injury by vibratory-and/or electrostimulation. The seminal somatostatin concentration and sp...
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Myosin heavy chain isoform transformation in single fibres from m. vastus lateralis in spinal cord injured individuals: Effects of long-term functional electrical stimulation (FES)
The myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of single fibres from m. vastus lateralis of five spinal-cord-injured (SCI) individuals was analysed by Sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-...
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Long term adaptation to electrically induced cycle training in severe spinal cord injured individuals
Spinal cord injured (SCI) individuals most often contract their injury at a young age and are deemed to a life of more or less physical inactivity. In addition to the primary implications of the SCI, severe SC...
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Survival and cause of death after traumatic spinal cord injury. A long-term epidemiological survey from Denmark
Life expectancy among individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) has remained lower than in the normal population, even with optimal medical management. But significant improvement has been achieved, as will ...
