What is anterior spinal artery syndrome?

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Anterior spinal artery syndrome is also known as Beck syndrome, Davison syndrome, anterior spinal artery occlusion syndrome, etc. The clinical features of this disease are the involvement of the anterior spinal artery distribution area, resulting in limb paralysis, pain, temperature disturbance, and rectum bladder sphincter disturbance. What is anterior spinal artery syndrome? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is anterior spinal artery syndrome?

Anterior spinal artery syndrome is caused by occlusion of the anterior spinal artery or central artery. However, there are many reports that the cause of spinal cord infarction is not occlusion of the above mentioned vessels, but the root artery or the vertebral artery, aorta and other extraspinal vessels at its origin. Syphilitic arteritis and thrombosis are the first causes of spinal cord infarction, but there are many reasons in the future reports, Embolism was more common in vascular obstruction than thrombosis.

Dissociative sensory disturbance was found in the lower cervical part of the cervical spinal cord and the middle thoracic part of the thoracic spinal cord; Rapid onset of paraplegia or quadriplegia; Bladder and rectum dysfunction appeared early *, urinary retention early, and urinary incontinence later.

At the time of onset, the most common initial symptoms were severe pain and banded sensation consistent with the lesion; There may be abnormal sweating, cold and hot sensation and other autonomic nervous symptoms; The course of disease or stop development or symptoms improved, typical cases (lesions up to several nodes) for severe and poor recovery;

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