1. Identifying and exploring the favorable factors that help to slow the progression of disease in patients with mild cervical spondylotic myelopathy
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Taotao Lin, Zhipeng Yao, Zhehao Xiao, Rongcan Wu, Yujie Zhao, Dehui Chen, Linquan Zhou, Zhenyu Wang, and Wenge Liu
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Mild cervical spondylotic myelopathy ,Slow disease progression ,Cervical vertebra sagittal parameters ,Paravertebral muscle degeneration ,Compression degree of the cervical spinal cord ,Compression degree of the spinal canal ,Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract To explore the favorable factors that help slow the progression of disease in patients with mild Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM). A retrospective analysis was conducted, involving the enrollment of 115 CSM patients. The categorization of patients into two groups was based on the duration of symptoms, assessments using the mJOA scale and Health Transition (HT) scores: mild-slow group and severe-rapid group. We found that the patients in both groups had similar degrees of spinal cord compression, but mild-slow group were older and had smaller C2–C7 cobb angle (Flexion) (CL(F)), C2–C7 cobb angle (Range of motion) (CL(ROM)), Transverse area (TA), Normal-TA, Compressive spinal canal area (CSCA), Normal-Spinal canal area (Normal-SCA) and lower Spinal cord increased signal intensity (ISI) Grade than the severe-rapid group. A binary logistic regression analysis showed that CL(ROM) and Normal-TA are favorable factors to help slow the progression of disease patients with mild CSM. Through ROC curves, we found that when CL(ROM)
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- 2024
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