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A patient with a hyperalimentation catheter in the spinal canal is presented. This resulted in an extradural fluid mass and partial paraplegia that eventually cleared.
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PMID:Hyperalimentation catheter passing into the spinal canal causing temporary paraplegia. 9 17

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) has received formal research attention only within the last eight years. Diagnostic criteria for SAD include many characteristics typical of depression: sadness, low self-esteem, lack of energy, social withdrawal, and suicide ideation, and features of atypical depression: carbohydrate craving, overeating, weight gain, and hypersomnia. Differential diagnosis of the disorder depends on an onset in fall/winter and remission in spring/summer. It was hypothesized that spinal cord injury (SCI) patients would have a higher incidence of the disorder in the northern latitudes because of decreased outdoor activities in winter and because of such light-depriving winter survival tactics as installing opaque plastic for storm windows. SCI patient responded to a postal survey which included Rosenthal's Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Results showed a substantially higher rate of SAD among SCI patients than in the normative sample.
J Am Paraplegia Soc 1992 Apr
PMID:Seasonal affective disorder in a spinal cord injury population. 158 5

We report a new syndrome that we call "recurrent optic neuromyelitis with endocrinopathies" in eight Antillean women from Martinique and Guadeloupe Ocular involvement was either monocular or binocular, whereas myelopathy was acute or subacute. In seven patients, myelopathic symptoms recurred, and in six patients, visual problems recurred. Spinal cord involvement was a consistent band-like pseudo-syringomyelic dissociated sensory loss. All eight patients had endocrinopathies consisting of amenorrhea, galactorrhea, diabetes insipidus, hypothyroidism, or hyperphagia. Spinal cord MRI revealed cavitation-like images. Various immunosuppressant treatments had little effect on the uniformly deteriorating course, ending in blindness and paraplegia. Six patients died within 5 years of onset, and an autopsy in one patient showed multiple demyelinizing lesions of the spinal cord with thickened blood vessels walls without evidence of inflammation. These cases appear to constitute a syndrome distinct from MS and from classic Devic's syndrome, not only because of the association with endocrinopathies but because of the stereotypy of the recurrences, the absence of MRI lesions in the cerebral white matter, and the unusual image of cavitation of the spinal cord. The syndrome is also distinct from HTLV-I-associated paraparesis, which is endemic in the West Indies.
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PMID:Recurrent optic neuromyelitis with endocrinopathies: a new syndrome. 937 56

This study aimed to determine meal-related factors affecting nutritional status, dietary intake, and body composition of children with cerebral palsy (CP). This study was conducted on 16 children with and 16 children without CP, aged 4 to 12 years, through a survey on general characteristics, body composition, eating habits, and nutrient intake. In the case of children with CP, comparisons were made according to classification into types of paralysis (hemiplegia, paraplegia, and quadriplegia). With respect to stature, the percentile of those surveyed was within normal range; however, children with CP were in a significantly lower percentile (p < 0.05) than healthy children. Regarding problems of dietary life, while usually brain-damaged children with CP have an overeating problem, seriously brain-damaged children with CP cannot have a meal by themselves; this was significantly different among the groups (p < 0.01). Regarding average intake of vitamin D and calcium, children with and without CP had a lower intake than required, with no significant difference between the groups. The evaluation of the nutrient status of children with and children without CP showed that children with CP were slow in stature development, and intake of vitamin D and calcium were less than required; therefore, it is necessary to provide education on adequate intake of nutrients. Since CP leads to frequent external intervention to having meals, it is required of parents and teachers to undergo training on adequate eating habits and attitudes.
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PMID:Food Habits, Dietary Intake, and Body Composition in Children with Cerebral Palsy. 3040 56