Spinal infarction

Myocardial infarction becomes stroke-like onset. Spinal cord symptoms often reach a peak in minutes or hours. Anterior spinal cord syndrome occurs due to different occlusive blood supply arteries. It is more common in the middle or lower thorax. The first symptoms are often Radical or diffuse pain at the corresponding site where the level of the lesion suddenly appears, delayed paralysis occurs within a short period of time, and it changes to spastic paralysis after the spinal cord shock period; conduction beam type dissociative dysfunction, loss of pain and temperature and deep sensory retention (The posterior cord is not affected), the urine and stool disorders are more obvious; the posterior spinal artery syndrome, the posterior spinal artery is rarely occluded, and even if it occurs, it is lighter and recovers faster due to good collateral circulation symptoms. Below-level deep sensory loss and sensory ataxia, pain temperature and muscle strength preservation, sphincter function is often not affected; Central artery syndrome, lower motor neurons paralysis, decreased muscle tone, muscle atrophy at the corresponding stage of the disease level, No sensory disturbance and cone bundle damage.

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