Citation

Zárate-Kalfópulos B, Jiménez-González A, Reyes-Sánchez A, Robles-Ortiz R, Cabrera-Aldana EE, Rosales-Olivarez LM. Spinal Cord 2016; 54(11): 1016-1019.

Affiliation

Spine Surgery Service, National Rehabilitation Institute, Distrito Federal, México.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, International Spinal Cord Society, Publisher Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1038/sc.2016.41

PMID

27067655

Abstract

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with spinal cord injury (SCI) admitted to a single center. SETTING: Single center study, México.

METHODS: This study reviewed 433 patients with SCI. Data were extracted from medical records and retrospectively reviewed.

RESULTS: A total of 433 patients with a diagnosis of SCI were included in the analysis. Of these, 346 (79.9%) had traumatic SCI (TSCI) and 87 (20.1%) had non-traumatic SCI (NTSCI). The principal causes of traumatic TSCI were motor vehicle accidents in 150 patients (43.4%), falls in 107 patients (30.9%) and a result of firearms in 58 patients (16.8%). Tumoral cord compression was the main cause of NTSCI in 50 patients (57.4%), followed by degenerative disease-causing myelopathy in 17 patients (19.5%). The proportion of patients affected with NTSCI was significantly lower, 29.9 vs 79.1% (P=0.0001), the age of patients was higher 53.9 vs 37.8 (P<0.002) and SCI was less severe, AIS D 41.33 vs 9.5% (P=0.0001) compared with the TSCI group.

CONCLUSIONS: The demographic profiles of patients with TSCI and NTSCI differ in terms of proportion of total SCIs, patient age, male:female ratio and incomplete vs complete injury. The most common etiology of TSCI was motor vehicle accidents (43.4%), and neurological lesions were complete in 62.7% of patients. The most common etiology of NTSCI was tumoral spinal lesions (57.4%), and lesions were incomplete in 75.8% of patients.Spinal Cord advance online publication, 12 April 2016; doi:10.1038/sc.2016.41.

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