Introduction

SCI causes 'immune system paralysis'

SCI causes 'immune system paralysis'

“Our research shows evidence that spinal cord injury directly causes increased risk for bacterial infection such as pneumonia. … Pneumonia is the leading cause of death after acute spinal cord injury and is associated with poor neurological outcome. Patients with spinal cord injuries are 37 times more likely to die of pneumonia than those without these injuries,” said principal investigator Jan M. Schwab, a spinal cord researcher at Ohio State’s Neurological Institute.

Read more… | The study was published in the March edition of Brain.