{"id":8634,"date":"2018-02-27T17:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2018-02-27T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:42:54","slug":"cauda-equina-syndrome-in-a-middleaged-man-caused-by-lumbar-disk-herniation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/cauda-equina-syndrome-in-a-middleaged-man-caused-by-lumbar-disk-herniation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cauda equina syndrome in a middleaged man caused by lumbar disk herniation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A middle-aged man with a history of lower back pain and radiculopathy was suddenly taken ill with a new onset lower back pain, lower limb weakness, sensory changes in the saddle and perineal areas and urinary retention. The patient was admitted to hospital within a few hours of the onset of the symptoms. The <em>cauda equina<\/em> syndrome was diagnosed. A CT scan, performed before the onset of the <em>cauda equina<\/em> syndrome, revealed a massive herniation of the L4-L5 disk with dural sac compression and narrowing of the canal. Urgent surgery was undertaken and the L4-L5 disk sequester was removed. Sensory changes and lower limb weakness passed in a few days after the surgery. The bladder function gradually improved during the subsequent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A middle-aged man with a history of lower back pain and radiculopathy was suddenly taken ill with a new onset lower back pain, lower limb weakness, sensory changes in the saddle and perineal areas and urinary retention. The patient was admitted to hospital within a few hours of the onset of the symptoms. The cauda &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-case-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}