title: [Nontraumatic spinal cord injury: etiology, demography and clinics].
abstract: We performed a retrospective and descriptive cross-sectional; study in 210 hospitalized patients with spinal cord injury at the National Institute of Rehabilitation (INR), Callao, Peru from 2000-2006. The goal was to describe etiology, and clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of non traumatic spinal cord injuries (LMNT). We found a prevalence of 27 % for LMNT, average age at onset of 32.0 years, male gender 50.5 %, and secondary education completed in 41.9 %, poverty 90.5 %. The infectious etiology (viral and bacterial) was predominant in 37.6 %, with 11.9 infected with HTLVI. Although the INR is a reference center, the findings can't be generalized because it isn't a representative sample of the Peruvian population, further studies are necessary to propose strategies for prevention and control, considering the high cost of integral rehabilitation treatment in these patients.
authors.affiliation: Dirección Ejecutiva de Investigación, Docencia y Rehabilitación Integral en Funciones Motoras, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Perú. asencioqg@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Asencio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quintana-Gonzales
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sotomayor-Espichan
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martínez-Romero
authors.forename: César
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuroki-García
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology