Does having spinal cord cavernous disease reduce life expectancy? How should it be treated?

Spinal cord cavernous disease is a chronic, progressive lesion of the spinal cord. It is characterized by the formation of tubular cavities in the spinal cord (mainly in the gray matter) and glial (non-neural cell) proliferation. It is often found in the cervical spinal cord. When the lesion involves the medulla oblongata, it is called medullary cavernous disease. The main causes of this disease are:

1, congenital spinal neural tube atresia: this disease is often accompanied by spina bifida, cervical ribs, scoliosis, circum-occipital deformity, and other congenital anomalies.

2, mechanical factors: congenital factors to the fourth ventricle exit obstruction, cerebrospinal fluid from the fourth ventricle to the subarachnoid space is blocked, the cerebrospinal fluid pulsation wave downward impact on the central canal of the spinal cord, resulting in the enlargement of the central canal, and break through the wall of the central canal to form a cavity.

3. Abnormal blood circulation in the spinal cord causes ischemia, necrosis, and softening of the spinal cord, resulting in the formation of a cavity.

4, others, such as spinal cord tumor cystic degeneration, injurious myelopathy, radiculomyelopathy, spinal cord infarction softening, spinal cord internal hemorrhage, necrotizing myelitis and so on.

Medical proof, spinal cord cavernosis is a heritable disease. Spinal Cord Cavitation is a chronic disease triggered by the patient's own immune system, and this immune system lesion is hereditary. Patients are mostly young adults between the ages of 20 and 30, with numbness in the limbs in the early stages, paralysis in the middle stages, and death in the late stages with many complications.

Spinal Cord Cavernous Disease and Genetics:

Post-traumatic Spinal Cord Cavernous Disease can occur between two months and decades after a spinal cord injury. The consequences are extremely serious and may lead to new disabilities again after the patient has successfully recovered. Spinal Cord Cavitation Disease and Spinal Cord Embolism Syndrome share the same clinical symptoms, which may include degeneration of the spinal cord, progressive loss of sensation and strength, profuse sweating, spasms, pain, and autonomic dysreflexia.

It occurs in both men and women wherever the causative gene is present, but is about twice as common in women as in men because women have two X chromosomes. Because there is no masking effect of a normal chromosome, the onset of the disease tends to be heavier in men than in women.

One of the patient's parents must have the same disease (except for genetic mutations).

It can be inherited for several generations, but a normal woman with the disease will not have the disease-causing genes retransmitted to her offspring.

Male patients pass the disease to their daughters and not to their sons, and female patients (heterozygotes) pass the disease to half of their sons and daughters.

Spinal cord cavernous disease is hereditary, so as a family history of the disease friends must pay extra attention, you should go to the hospital for regular checkups in order to understand their own physical condition, to keep track of their own risk of the disease, so that you can better prevent this disease.