Spinal cord injury research triggering an immune system response. Animal studies with injection of bone marrow stem cells have shown improvement in motor function; however not so in a human trial a year post-injury. More trials are underway. Adipose and umbilical tissue stem cells need further study before human trials can be performed, but two Korean studies were begun to investigate adipose cells in SCI patients. Transplantation of tissues such as olfactory ensheathing cells from the olfactory bulbs has been shown to produce beneficial effects in spinal cord injured rats. Trials have also begun to show success when olfactory ensheathing cells are transplanted into
Tethered spinal cord syndrome with progressive lower extremity weakness, bowel and bladder incontinence, and back pain in the setting of childhood repair of mylomeningocele and two previous detethering procedures. The research on performing SSVO in this patient allowed the scientists to conclude that SSVO via lateral retropleural approach is a good treatment for the recurrence of TCS. This procedure is minimally invasive compared to the posterior approach which gives the advantages of having direct access to the vertebral body and disc while avoiding the need to have an operation near the spinal cord but further research is still needed. Tethered spinal cord syndrome Tethered