Only sitting would relieve the symptoms. His neurological exam was normal other than depressed ankle reflexes. Epidural Lipomatosis: (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI of the lumbar spine; (Right) ...

Increased risk of postop infection when surgery closely follows epidural steroid injection Date: March 14, 2017 Source: Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group Summary: Patients may wish to take ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An epidural for pain relief around the time of surgery is safe, a new study confirms, but it has little or no beneficial impact on survival after surgery. The new study ...

Depending on the location of the catheter, epidural analgesia can be used to help relieve pain associated with chest, abdominal, and lower extremity surgery. A member of the anesthesiology team will ...

investigators strongly recommended that doctors treat patients with lumbar epidural steroid injection before considering spinal surgery, and they suggested that not all specialists are adopting ...

A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general ...

The researchers found that 646 of the patients who had general anesthesia (4.4 percent) died within 30 days of their surgery compared to 204 of the patients who had spinal or epidural anesthesia ...