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National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Consensus Statement January 27–29, 1992 · 1 Jul 1992

The Urinary Tract Infection Consensus Conference brought together researchers, clinicians, and consumers to arrive at consensus on the best practices for preventing and treating urinary tract infections in people with spinal cord injuries; the risk factors and diagnostic studies that should be done; indications for antibiotic use; appropriate follow-up management; and needed future research. Urinary…

Sam C. Colachis · 1 Jul 1992

Autonomic hyperreflexia occurs in up to 85 percent of individuals with spinal cord injuries above the major splanchnic sympathetic outflow. In such cases, paroxysmal reflex sympathetic activity develops in response to noxious stimuli below the level of the neurologic lesion. The clinical features of autonomic hyperreflexia are due largely to reflex sympathetic adrenergic and cholinergic…

W. Bruce Shingleton, Donald R. Bodner · 1 Jan 1993

The medical records of 88 patients followed through our spinal cord injury clinic were reviewed to determine if elevated intravesical pressures result in more urologic complications than are seen with low pressure bladders. Fifty-two of the patients were noted to have a high bladder pressure (sustained detrusor pressure greater than 40 cm water) on cystogram…

Patricia W. Nance · 1 Jul 1994

In twenty-five SCI subjects, antispasticity effects of three putative antispasticity agents [clonidine (an alpha-2 noradrenergic agonist), cyproheptadine (a 5-HT2 antagonist) and baclofen (a GABA-B agonist)] were tested in terms of changes in leg tone as graded by the Ashworth scale (AS), in terms of the vibratory inhibition of the H-reflex (VII) and in terms of…