Treatable Spinal Cord Disorders
Compressive |
Epidural, intradural, or intramedullary neoplasm |
Epidural abscess |
Epidural hemorrhage |
Cervical spondylosis |
Herniated disk |
Posttraumatic compression by fractured or displaced vertebra or hemorrhage |
Vascular |
Arteriovenous malformation and dural fistula |
Antiphospholipid syndrome and other hypercoagulable states |
Inflammatory |
Multiple sclerosis |
Neuromyelitis optica |
Transverse myelitis |
Sarcoidosis |
Sjögren-related myelopathy |
Systemic lupus erythematosus-related myelopathy |
Vasculitis |
Infectious |
Viral: VZV, HSV-1 and 2, CMV, HIV, HTLV-1, others |
Bacterial and mycobacterial: Borrelia, Listeria, syphilis, others |
Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
Parasitic: schistosomiasis, toxoplasmosis |
Developmental |
Syringomyelia |
Meningomyelocele |
Tethered cord syndrome |
Metabolic |
Vitamin B12 deficiency (subacute combined degeneration) |
Copper deficiency |
Abbreviation: HTLV, human T-cell lymphotropic virus.