Un accident grave au niveau de la C7 et hop, plus moyen de bouger la main. Mais une équipe, comme le montre l'image, a réussi à "faire un pont" / recabler les nerfs dans le bras qui viennent d'au dessus de la C7 vers ceux d'en dessous qui vont vers la main.
Bilan, le patient a un peu récupéré de la motricité de sa main !
Source:
Surgeons Restore Some Hand Function to Quadriplegic Patient
To detour around the block in this patient’s C7 spinal cord injury and return hand function, Mackinnon operated in the upper arms. There, the working nerves that connect above the injury (green) and the non-working nerves that connect below the injury (red) run parallel to each other, making it possible to tap into a functional nerve and direct those signals to a non-functional neighbor (yellow arrow). (Credit: Eric Young)
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To detour around the block in this patient’s C7 spinal cord injury and return hand function, Mackinnon operated in the upper arms. There, the working nerves that connect above the injury (green) and the non-working nerves that connect below the injury (red) run parallel to each other, making it possible to tap into a functional nerve and direct those signals to a non-functional neighbor (yellow arrow). (Credit: Eric Young)
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La publication officielle dans le Journal de Neurochirurgie: thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/2012.3.JNS12328