Erschienen in:
01.01.2016 | Cochrane in CORR
Cochrane in CORR
®: Steroids for Acute Spinal Cord Injury (Review)
verfasst von:
Nathan Evaniew, MD, Marcel Dvorak, MD, FRCSC
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 1/2016
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Excerpt
Approximately 500,000 people experience traumatic spinal cord injuries worldwide each year, and the development of potential therapies to reduce their morbidity and socioeconomic impact remains an urgent research priority [
5]. Lifetime direct and indirect costs related to spinal cord injuries are estimated to exceed USD 3 million per person [
12], and annual total related healthcare costs in the United States alone are estimated to exceed more than USD 10 billion [
4]. …