급성 척수 손상 후 신경보 호 및 재생을 위한 약물 치료

Pharmacological Treatment for Neuroprotection and Regeneration after Acute Spinal Cord Injury

This is a retrospective review of current literature regarding neuroprotection and regeneration after acute spinal cord injury. Our objective was to provide an update for clinicians of the pathophysioloy of secondary injury, which is the main target for the treatment of spinal cord injury and the emerging therapeutic strategies for promoting neural regeneration. We particularly focused on currently used medications that may have neuroprotictive potential in spinal cord injury. While laboratory research in animal models reportedly resulted in some degrees of promising result, prospective randomized clinical results are anxiously awaited.