Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects. Abbreviations: NLI = Neurological Level of Injury; AO = AO-Classification; AIS = American Spinal. Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale. Age is expressed as mean years ± standard deviation. Neurological remission was defined as improvement in AIS. Three patients had posttraumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) without vertebral fractures. p-Values were analyzed with χ2-test (categorical data) and t-test (age) and show differences in distribution between G1 and G2.
| Patients | N | Age (years) | Gender | Etiology | AO | NLI | Initial AIS | Final AIS | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♀ | ♂ | Fall | Traffic | Other | A | B | C | C | Th | L | A | B | C | D | A | B | C | D | |||
| All Patients | 40 | 43.55 ± 20.80 | 12 | 28 | 25 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| Remission (G1) | 23 | 43.26 ± 23.56 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| No Remission (G2) | 17 | 43.94 ± 17.05 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| p > 0.05 | p < 0.05 | p > 0.05 | p > 0.05 | p > 0.05 | p < 0.05 | p < 0.05 | |||||||||||||||