Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published on Oct. 5 and comes from Germany. Decompression surgery is widely accepted as the procedure of choice for patients with Chiari I. This study was undertaken to determine the mechanisms responsible for neurological deterioration after decompression surgery and the results of secondary interventions. PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Medical Article
This case report was published on Wednesday. The most typical symptom of Chiari I in children is headache. The authors describe a 14-year-old girl who presented with a 3-year history of gait decline and no headache, which is very unusual. After surgery to correct the Chiari I malformation, the patient's gait ... PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published on Sept. 12 and comes from Spain. The researchers look at the cases of two children, one with Chiari I and the other with hydrocephalus, whose headaches worsened by playing their wind instruments. Click HERE for more information and HERE for more information on wind instruments.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Medical Article
This case report comes from Japan and looks at a 65-year-old woman. She has a history of rheumatoid arthritis and presents a rare case of acquired Chiari malformation secondary to atlantoaxial vertical subluxation, associated with congenital atlanto-occipital assimilation. CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO A PDF (INCLUDES ONE SURGERY IMAGE) FILE.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Medical Article
This study is a case report and was published on Sept. 7. It comes from Switzerland and looks at a 39-year-old man that was diagnosed with Chiari I. After an osteo-dural decompression of the posterior fossa, a post-operative MRI revealed ... TO READ MORE, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published on Aug. 31 and comes from Germany and Italy. To examine the long-term clinical and radiological follow-up, researchers studied a mixed retrospective and prospective single-institution cohort of 109 consecutive surgically treated adult patients with syringomyelia and Chiari I. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published on Aug. 30 and comes from Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington. It presents a case of presyrinx in a child in the setting of acquired Chiari I malformation caused by lumboperitoneal overshunting. What is a presyrinx? PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published on Sept. 7 and comes from Helsinki, Finland. To study the asymmetry of Chiari I and craniosynostosis (a birth defect that causes one or more sutures on a baby's head to close earlier than normal), measurements of the right and left tonsils were made from sagittal images from both pre-operative and post-operative images from 11 patients. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published online on Sept. 14 and comes from a team effort involving the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), the University of Florida and the University of Virginia. It was conducted in 48 patients with Chiari I (39 of them have syringomyelia) that were treated with craniocervical decompression. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Medical Article
This study was published online on Sept. 14 and comes from SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, New York) and Boston Children's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts). Dysplastic structural lesions within the fourth ventricle have been reported in patients with Chiari II. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.
