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.
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Zárate-Kalfópulos, B., Jiménez-González, A., Reyes-Sánchez, A. et al. Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with spinal cord injury: a single hospital-based study. Spinal Cord 54, 1016–1019 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2016.41
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