Envejecimiento de los condrocitos, carga articular y osteoartritis. (Inglés)

H. Laufs, MD, S. Weidauer, MD, C. Heller, MD, M. Lorenz, MD and T. Neumann-Haefelin, MD

From the Department of Neurology (Drs. Laufs, Lorenz, and Neumann-Haefelin), Institute of Neuroradiology (Dr. Weidauer), and Department of Pediatrics (Dr. Heller), J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Isolated ischemia of the cervical spinal cord is an uncommon but increasingly recognized complication of vertebral artery dissection (VAD). The authors report a young patient with congenital afibrinogenemia, who developed VAD with extensive unilateral spinal cord infarction, probably caused by local compression of spinal radicular feeders at their origin by vertebral artery hematoma.