Treatment syringomyelia in Piestany

Chronic incurable CNS disease, characterized by the formation of cavities in the spinal cord and / or medulla oblongata. The overwhelming majority of cases of syringomyelia are accompanied by the formation of cavities in the posterior horns of the spinal cord, where the neurons responsible for the perception of pain and temperature are located. Symptoms in this case are the loss of the ability to perceive pain and temperature in significant areas of the skin. Sensitivity most often loses the skin of the trunk and hands. Patients complain of unreasonable pains and paresthesias of the skin, pains in the neck, chest, upper extremities, between the shoulder blades, thickening of the skin, cyanosis, slow healing of wounds, deformities of the joints and bones, osteoporosis. Patients with syringomyelia more often than others are injured and burned due to loss of sensitivity. In the late stages of syringomyelia, there is a loss of muscle tone, atrophy, paresis of the extremities, impaired urination, problems with speech, swallowing, breathing. The probability of a lethal outcome is increased due to the development of bulbar paralysis and respiratory arrest that follows. There is no treatment, in the early stages, doctors are trying to stop the reproduction of glia. Radiotherapy, drug therapy, radon baths, UHF-therapy, surgical treatment are used.