Diaphragm pacing implantation in Japan for a patient with cervical spinal cord injury: A case report.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition leading to respiratory failure that requires permanent mechanical ventilation, which is the main driver of increased medical costs. There is a great demand for establishing therapeutic interventions to treat respiratory dysfunction following severe cervical SCI.

Patient concerns and diagnosis

We present a 24-year-old man who sustained a cervical displaced C2-C3 fracture with SCI due to a traffic accident. As the patient presented with tetraplegia and difficulty in spontaneous breathing following injury, he was immediately intubated and placed on a ventilator with cervical external fixation by halo orthosis. The patient then underwent open reduction and posterior fusion of the cervical spine 3 we

SUBMITTER: Yokota K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239610 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature