[Ambulatory lumbar myelography].
Out-patient lumbar myelography was carried out on 74 consecutive patients, and adverse reactions were registered by the patients themselves. Twenty-four percent experienced moderate or severe headache; 62% experienced increasing back pain of a moderate or severe degree; 40% experienced increasing leg pain of a moderate or severe degree; 15% experienced nausea/general symptoms to a moderate or severe degree. Twenty-nine percent experienced the myelography as unpleasant in a moderate or severe degree. Fourty-seven percent had some kind of adverse reaction for > or = four days. Eleven patients (16%) were admitted to hospital because of severe adverse reactions, mostly headache, and nine of them were treated with a blood patch. Twenty-five percent were referred for operation for their back disease. Generally, out-patient lumbar myelography is well tolerated, but a large proportion of the patients experience temporary adverse reactions to a moderate or severe degree, perhaps in part because of immobilisation in connection with photographing procedures.
Laursen
S O
SO
Odense Universitetshospital, reumatologisk sektion af medicinsk afdeling C.
Petersen
F O
FO
Poulsen
M R
MR
Nepper-Rasmussen
H J
HJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
Ambulant lumbal myelografi.