Bladder dysfunction with risk of urinary tract infection; bowel dysmotility; pressure sores; in high cervical cord lesions, mechanical respiratory failure; paroxysmal hypertension or hypotension with volume changes; severe hypertension and bradycardia in response to noxious stimuli or bladder or bowel distention; venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
For a more detailed discussion, see Hauser SL, Ropper AH: Diseases of the Spinal Cord, Chap. 456, p. 2650, in HPIM-19. |