Spinal cord ischemia

A series of damaging biochemical changes caused by spinal cord ischemia will lead to intracellular calcium accumulation and increased oxygen free radical content, which will damage neurons in the spinal cord and cause irreversible spinal cord damage. In the past ten years, The improvement of blood flow measurement method technology has made progress in the clinical understanding of spinal cord ischemia. Spinal cord ischemia comes from many causes other than the spinal cord, and the spinal cord itself is not diseased. Spinal cord ischemia can also result from vascular lesions such as spinal vascular malformations or spinal atherosclerosis.

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