Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries in a Teaching Hospital in Manipur: An Epidemiological Study

Abstract

Variations in the arterial pattern of the upper limb are very common as observed in many cadaveric and angiographic studies. Knowledge of variations in the origin and course of the radial artery is important because they are used for many diagnostic procedures as well as vascular and reconstructive surgeries like coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass surgery. During routine dissection in our institute, we observed a case of high origin of the radial artery in a 33 year old male cadaver. It was found to be unilateral; on left side, radial artery was taking origin from 3 rd part of the axillary artery at the lower border of pectoralis minor before the origin of subscapular artery and anterior circumflex humeral artery. It had a superficial course in the arm crossing the median nerve from medial to lateral side. The further course of this superficial radial artery in the forearm was normal and it terminated by forming a deep Palmar arch in hand. These variations may be of great clinical implications for vascular and plastic surgeons and radiologists. Superficial course of radial artery makes it vulnerable to accidental injuries and elevates the risk of bleeding.

Epidemiologic evidence of spinal cord injury in Tamil Nadu, India.

“…2,10,11 Majority of the spinal cord injury are occurring at the age of 20 to 40, which is the most productive period of their lives. 4,5,12 Predominance of spinal cord injury among the males may be due to the involvement of risk factors encountered during their occupational proceedings. Another severity of occupational hazard we observed in this study was, greater number of injury were falls from heights.…”

“…Time delay of admission after injury was minimal in this centre. 1,5,6 Majority of the patients reached our centre within 24 hours duration which is vital time period for the treatment of spinal cord injury. In our study majority of the patients admitted to our centre were due to second transfer.…”

“…2,3 A detailed literature about the etiology of spinal cord injury is available from the developed nationals. 4,5 Whereas in developing countries like India, though the risk factors are high, the availability of region/area wise literature support is lacking. 6 Hence it is necessary to conduct an epidemiological study to provide information about spinal cord injury trauma and its complications at a regional level like Chennai, a metropolitan city in India.…”

Quality of Life among Persons with Paraplegic Spinal Cord Injury

“…But in the current study, the most common cause of injury was fall from height followed by road traffic accidents. This could be due to the fact that a greater percentage of people live in the villages in Bangladesh, similar to neighbouring countries like India (Singh et al, 2003).…”

Pattern Of Traumatic And Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries - A Hospital Based Study In Haryana

“…In addition, it helps in the planning of prevention strategies which may modify or eliminate the risk factors of this incapacitating injury. 5,6,7,8,9 The prevention of SCI is paramount because there is no curative treatment for SCI and investigating the epidemiology pattern of SCI is the first step required for formulating preventive strategies for SCI. Previous studies conducted by Singh R et al 8 and Chhabra HS et al 9 , analyzed the demographic profile of patients with T-SCI only and did not observe injury pattern associated with NT-SCI.…”