{"id":81300,"date":"2025-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.institutchiaribcn.com\/comunicacion\/favourable-evolution-of-a-case-with-arnold-chiari-i-syndrome-and-idiopathic-syringomyelia-7-years-after-the-application-of-the-filum-system\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:24:20","slug":"favourable-evolution-case-arnold-chiari-i-syndrome-idiopathic-syringomyelia-7-years-application-filum-system","status":"publish","type":"comunicacion","link":"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/favourable-evolution-case-arnold-chiari-i-syndrome-idiopathic-syringomyelia-7-years-application-filum-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourable evolution of a case with Arnold-Chiari I Syndrome and Idiopathic Syringomyelia, 7 years after the application of the Filum System\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published by\u00a0ICSEB<\/a>\u00a0at 4 July, 2025<\/p>\n

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Case 19475<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diagnosis<\/strong>: Neuro-cranio-vertebral Syndrome. Filum Disease. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils (Arnold-Chiari I Syndrome). Intramedullary cyst (Idiopathic Syringomyelia).<\/p>\n

Date of the Sectioning of the Filum Terminale (SFT) intervention<\/strong>\u00a0according to the Filum System\u00ae<\/strong>: April 2018.<\/p>\n

The patient, who wishes to remain anonymous, was operated on at the age of 11 and has since returned to our centre for several follow-ups, the last one being\u00a07 years after the intervention, in early 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nFig.1. Preoperative images of Case 19475<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0magnetic resonance scans from the end of 2017 \u2013 brain, cervical, thoracic and lumbo-sacral.<\/em><\/div>\n

Before the application of the treatment, clinically she suffered especially from\u00a0headaches, instability and vertigo, easy and generalised fatigue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In her preoperative MR images from 2017 (Fig.1), the following findings, among others, could be observed:<\/p>\n