Two cases of bone marrow tissue implant into chronic cervical spinal cord injury

Abstract

Two patients with chronic cervical spinal cord injury and quadriplegia underwent partial resection of the medular scar and implant of bone marrow tissue with a combination of drugs at the site of spinal cord injury. Post-operatively they received a similar treatment in the neuromotor rehabilitation centre and were treated additionally with cerebrolysin . Sensory improvements were noticed, but no significant motor improvements were observed twenty months afterwards.

Keywords

• autologous bone marrow implant
• sensory recovery
• spinal cord injury
• spinal scar