Spine Section leaders Dr Erica Bisson and Dr Mark Shaffrey debating at AANS annual meeting on posterior vs anterior surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy!

Juan S. Uribe. MD, FAANS John H. Shin MD | MGH Spine Eric Potts AANS

I just got some bad news from my parents:
My dog, Benny, has been diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy, which means he will eventually lose the ability to walk in his hind legs, he is comfortable and happy for now but he probably has anywhere from 1 month to over a year left,

Hey twitter… I don’t even know how to say this.. my dog who’s 8!has started having seizures. He is now diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy which is ALS. If you can please 🙏🏼 for my baby Charlie 😢

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Another wonderful talk by Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons superstar med student, Eunice Yang, who was awarded best abstract of session #AANS2024
🔎She presented our QOD work using ML to define comorbidity phenotypes of pts operated for cervical myelopathy
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Columbia Neurosurgery

Apa yg bikin orang percaya harus sampai dosis ke-5?! Bad day 😢
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'Here we report a case of GFAP-A that developed after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, involving disseminated encephalopathy combined with extensive longitudinal myelopathy, refractory to any immunosuppressive therapies.'

New publication!! 🙌

Congratulations Dr. David Cadotte on his recent publication titled “Advanced MRI metrics improve the prediction of baseline disease severity for individuals with degenerative cervical myelopathy” in The Spine Journal TheSpineJEditor.

thespinejournalonline.com/article/S1529-…

.UCSF School of Medicine student Vardhaan Ambati, MS, presented a study from the Quality Outcomes Database showing that education correlates with 90-day readmission following cervical spondylitis myelopathy surgery.
#AANS2024 Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA Mohamed Macki, MD MPH Cleveland Clinic Neurosurgery Vardhaan Ambati

🤩 Let's read a very interesting paper: Accuracy of postoperative recall by degenerative cervical #myelopathy patients using the modified Japanese #Orthopaedic Association scale
By Zhongjun Liu et al.
Read #article here: dx.doi.org/10.18053/jctre…

This Petsie was made to honor Joelle's sweet boy Jackson, who crossed the rainbow bridge after a 6 month battle with degenerative myelopathy. 🌈 Her family surprised her with this keepsake so she'd have something to cuddle when she misses him. 💙🐾

Research Update: Clinical Approach to Myelopathy Diagnosis by Amanda Fortune is now up on our blog! Read the full piece at srna.ngo/blog-myelopath….

Betty Moore Reminds me of my GSD Babe. Unfortunately she passed away at only 7 with Degenerative Myelopathy. She was a wonderful dog. That was 18 years ago but think of her all the time.

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Tell him you woke up to signs of Lumbar Spondylosis and multilevel Posterior disc herniation with impingement of exit nerve roots which resulted from facetal arthrosis that suggests disectomies and neurotic stabilisation requiring physiotherapy for exacerbation and myelopathy.

GC EDS can predispose you to cervical instability. Leads to vagus nerve dysfunction and poor blood flow to the brain, cervical myelopathy sx and neck pain.
This can be worsened/sped up by stress/viruses/infections: inflammation.

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Moxy Rolla 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 In January we finally figured out what was going on but still, no treatment....

Left- cervical dystonia (oversized muscle stuck in contact mode) causing vagus nerve compression & dysautonomia

Right- cervical myelopathy (compression causing discs to indent spinal cord)

AlphaFo𝕏 Degenerative myelopathy

*🩼Causes of Fasciculations🦽*

MND

Syringomyelia

Thyrotoxic myopathy

Cervical Myelopathy

Electrolyte imbalance(hypokalemia,
hypomagnesemia)

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