(1) Monoparesis (monoplegia) occurs subsequent to unilateral T2-S1 lesions.
(2) Nineteen infants later developed cerebral palsy (two monoplegia of a leg, three hemiplegia, 5 diplegia and 9 quadriplegia).
(3) The histopathologic correlate of this monoplegia is a degeneration of the myelinated motor neurons of the peripheral nerve involved.
(4) She presented monoplegia of the right leg with progression to triplegia (bicrural and left arm) following antihypertensive treatment of a suspected "hypertensive crisis".
(5) Monoparesis (monoplegia) refers to partial (monoparesis) or complete (monoplegia) loss of voluntary motor function in a single limb.
(6) When the dysplasia was unilateral, contralateral spastic hemiplegia or monoplegia was present in 14 of 19 patients (74%), but dysphasia was uncommon, even in patients with dysplasia in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere.
(7) Immunologically naive, immunosuppressed mice infected with a low-passage clinical HSV-1 isolate developed local site lesions, monoplegia, paraplegia, and died within 8 days.
(8) Repeat Chiari innominate osteotomy in a young woman with traumatic monoplegia and subsequent hypoplasia of the hemipelvis and leg resulted in rotation of the pubic ramus into the vagina, causing obstructive dyspareunia.
(9) The two monoplegias occurred in patients whose bypasses occluded immediately.
(10) One of us suggested in 1962 that these could be the anatomical basis of spastic monoplegia or diplegia (LITTLE's disease).
(11) The 3 women with cardiac valve surgery had case 1) cerebral embolism; case 2) monoplegia and aphasia, and case 3) myocaridal infarction, all during oral contraception after their operations.
(12) The course of the illness was complicated by monoplegia and evidence of bulbar involvement with sensorineural deafness.
(13) Anoxia was consistently the most common etiological factor in those cases of monoplegia paraplegia, quadriplegia, diplegia, and ataxia, i.e.
(14) The patient, a 39-year-old male, presented with sciatalgia and progressive crural monoplegia.
(15) The patient, a 76 year-old woman, who had fallen down by accident 1 month before, was admitted to our hospital presenting lumbar pain radiating into her right thigh, monoplegia of the right leg and urinary incontinence.
(16) A 38-year-old female with acute lymphoblastic leukemia developed monoplegia of the left upper extremity following chemotherapy for remission induction consisting of vincristine, prednisolone, cyclophosphamide, adriamycin and methotrexate.
(17) Neurological examination revealed monoplegia of the left arm with absent DTRs, spastic paraplegia, sensory disturbances below Th 11 level and severe sphincter disturbance.
(18) The postoperative period was uneventful in 14 cases, but in the remaining patients there were 2 transient ischemic attacks, 2 monoplegias and 1 dysphasia (with immediate thrombosis of the bypass in 3 cases).
(19) Sensory disturbances, paraplegias, monoplegias were in low frequency.
(20) Two children (9%) had major disability (one with hemiplegia and one with a lower limb monoplegia) and two further children had minor disabilities (one had partial sightedness and squint, the other squint only).
Paraplegia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Paraplegy
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(2) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(3) Two of the patients showed an elevation of the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) protein before development of paraplegia; one also showed a rise in myelin basic protein associated with his myelopathy.
(4) In both conditions about half the number of cases presented clinically before the age of 3 months, when paraplegia was evident in only 5 of the 26 infants with tethered cord and 3 of the 25 with tethered roots.
(5) The experience with these patients and a critical review of the literature indicate that the use of extracorporeal circulation and avoidance of hypoxia and hypercapnia may decrease the probability of paraplegia.
(6) An incomplete transverse lesion of the cord with paraplegia was found in 61.7 per cent, a complete paralysis in 14.3 per cent of the cases.
(7) In contrast no dog in Group IV developed paraplegia.
(8) The main causes are Potts Disease, arachnoiditis, tropical spastic paraplegia, trauma, lathyrism and cord compression.
(9) There was one definitive neurological complication leading to the death of one patient at 4 months and one totally regressive paraplegia at the 2nd month with the patient recovering independent walking function.
(10) This observation relates a case of spinal arachnoiditis with paraplegia, for a 56 year old patient hospitalized for a S.A.H.
(11) Four of nine dogs in group 5 had complete paraplegia, three dogs showed varying degrees of recovery, and two dogs had no neurologic deficit.
(12) The incidence of renal dysfunction (7.4%) or paraplegia (2.1%) was not related to aortic cross-clamp time, and both were markedly decreased to 3.8% and 0.0%, respectively, when the cases of thoracoabdominal aneurysms were excluded.
(13) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(14) In order to study the effect of long-term administration of co-trimoxazole on renal function, creatinine clearance rates were measured in 18 patients with neurogenic hypotonia of the bladder due to paraplegia, quadriplegia, hemiplegia and cerebrocervical injuries.
(15) The loss of physical unctions is comparable to that in the case of paraplegia.
(16) Progressive neurological deficits were detected in 18 of 20 animals; severe paraparesis or paraplegia occurred in 75%, and sphincter dysfunction occurred in 55%.
(17) One-third of the infants with neuroblastoma presented with paraplegia and one-third with respiratory symptoms including wheeze, stridor and respiratory difficulty.
(18) After a severe polytraumatism, a 14 year-old boy presents paraplegia without vertebral lesion.
(19) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
(20) A 57-year-old man with clinical symptoms of dementia and spastic paraplegia revealed pathologically scattered cerebral arteriosclerotic changes and diffuse myelin destruction in the basis pontis.