Read the full text or download the PDF. Arachnoiditis: the silent epidemic. There is an interesting section on questionable causes of arachnoiditis. Full-text (PDF) This book provides a comprehensive analysis, and comments on a condition we hope will be significantly reduced in incidence with new imaging modalities.

Santa Rosa Beach, Florida (Saturday, July 1, 2000) – J. Antonio Aldrete, M.D., M.S., in collaboration with FutureMed Publishers and the Arachnoiditis Foundation, Inc.

Announces the publication of his book Arachnoiditis: The Silent Epidemic, which is the first book that comprehensively covers the dreadful disease of arachnoiditis. This 25-chapter, 339-page book offers rare insight into each stage of arachnoiditis, includes 133 photographs and illustrations, and contains an enormous wealth of information which would benefit all patients who suffer from arachnoiditis plus a multitude of specialists from orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and neurosurgeons, to physiatrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, medical libraries, pain clinics, HMO's, etc. Also included are extensive clinical observations in patients with arachnoiditis including clinical and radiological diagnosis, tabulation of symptoms, and assessment of the effectiveness of different therapeutic approaches to arachnoiditis. If you would like to purchase 'Arachnoiditis: The Silent Epidemic' Special price for Arachnoiditis sufferers is now $25.00. Price for healthcare providers and attorneys is $50.00. Shipping and handling is $4.50.

??? ???a Vice City Deluxe 2008 Gmc. Following is the table of contents of Dr. Aldrete's newly-published book “ ARACHNOIDITIS: THE SILENT EPIDEMIC,” which describes the concepts expressed in this website in-depth with a supportive medical bibliography: I. PREFACE A brief introduction on the humane aspects of arachnoiditis, the personal involvement with patients affected by it, and the aims as well as the objectives for writing this book.

Historical perspective A perspective of the disease with its predominant symptom—unrelenting, severe pain—is formed as brief information, followed by a sequence of the earliest medical descriptions (since 1863), and the medical trends that made it into an iatrogenic disease are discussed. Anatomopathology Includes a description of the normal meninges and the pathological lesions (gross and microscopic) seen in the various forms of arachnoiditis (ARC). Pain Transmission & modulation In this chapter, an attempt to define the pain pathways and spinal cord receptors involved in the various types as well as other symptoms found in patients with ARC. INFECTIONS: At first, the earlier cases of ARC were caused by syphilis, tuberculosis, meningitis, influenza, etc. Lately, echinoccocus, cryptococcus, and the AIDS virus have been the most frequent origin of it. MYELOGRAPHY: Reviews how oil-based and also some water-based dyes used for myelography caused innumerable cases of ARC from the 1940’s to the 1990’s. BLOOD IN THE INTRATHECAL SPACE: Under certain circumstances, blood in the subarachnoid space acts as a chemically-irritant factor producing ARC.