Abstract
With the rapid development of the building industry and of transportation in recent years, the number of cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) is rising each year. Urine retention and bladder dysfunction arising from SCI seriously affect the quality of life and survival of these patients. The total incidence of urinary tract infection in paraplegia patients (1,003 patients) after the Tangshan earthquake (1976) in China was 41.58 %, 49–66 % of whom succumbed to uremia. In the United States alone, more than half a million patients suffer from neurogenic bladder after SCI, and an additional 50,000 people sustain an SCI each year [1]. Other studies report that recurrent urinary tract infections, hypertension, and renal failure, which is one of the major complications, causes death in late-stage SCI patients [2].
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Lin, H., Xu, Z., Hou, C. (2014). Transfer of Normal Lumbosacral Nerve Roots to Reinnervate Atonic Bladder. In: Hou, C. (eds) Functional Bladder Reconstruction Following Spinal Cord Injury via Neural Approaches. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7766-8_10
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