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Published on: May 7, 2019
Epidemiological features of traumatic spinal cord injury in Chongqing, China
Guang-Zhi Ning1, Zhi-Ping Mu1, Lei Shangguan1
1a Department of Orthopedics , Xinqiao Hospital, the Third Military Medical University , Chongqing , Peoples Republic of China.
Objective:
To describe the epidemiological characteristics and trends of traumatic spinal cord injury in Chongqing, China.
Study Design:
Hospital-based retrospective research.
Setting:
Xinqiao Hospital, Chongqing.
Methods:
We reviewed medical records of 554 patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) admitted to Xinqiao Hospital from 2009 to 2013. Variables included gender, age, marital status, etiology, occupation, time of injury, level of injury, and severity of injury, the length of hospital stay, and treatment.
Results:
The mean age of patients with TSCI was 45.6 ± 13.8 years, and the male/female ratio was 4.33:1. 94.2% (522 patients) of all patients with TSCI were married. Falls, comprising low falls and high falls (10.8% and 50.9%, respectively), were the leading reason for a hospital visit. And the second reason was MVCs (21.8%). The most common injury site was the cervical spinal cord, accounting for nearly more than 54%. The length of hospital stay ranged between 1 and 219 days (mean: 28.3 days). The proportions of complete tetraplegia, incomplete tetraplegia, complete paraplegia and incomplete paraplegia were 17.1%, 37.8%, 22.2%, and 22.9%, respectively.
Conclusion:
The result revealed that the proportion of males was higher, as well as falls and MVCs were the first two main reasons, with older mean age of patients with TSCI than other countries. The occupations with highest risk for TSCI were peasants and laborers. All of these results prompted that preventive methods should be based on the characteristics of different type of patients with TSCI.
