Transverse Myelitis: Story of Fifteen Years of Dependence on Mechanical Ventilation

Abstract

This is a story of a patient with 27 years old; he had spent 12years of his life enjoying a good health and living as a lovely child among his family, his father, mother and other brothers and sisters. Wail Hadi Hassan was looking forward to a life filled with happiness and hope and suddenly he found himself inside the hospital, he was admitted to the hospital and since that time he couldn`t leave. 

 At the age of 12 years our patient was completely normal but at 7.0 o`clock a.m. in the 3^rd of April 1995, the patient had developed sever cervical and back pain followed after few minutes with weakness in the left hand then right hand followed by vomiting twice then difficulty in walking progressed so rapidly to inability to walk completely.