Poster 429 Pulmonary Function in Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Associations With Level and Duration of Injury.

Objective Investigate associations of level and duration of injury with pulmonary function in patients with chronic, motor complete, cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). Patients with moderate duration had greater FVC, FVC%-predicted, FEV1, FEV1%-predicted, and inspiratory capacity than did patients with long duration ( I P i <.05). Multivariate analysis showed that injury level had significant independent effects on FVC, FVC%-predicted, FEV1, FEV1%-predicted, ERV, and ERV%-predicted ( I P i <.05), and that injury duration had significant independent effects on FVC, FVC%-predicted, FEV1, FEV1%-predicted, and inspiratory capacity ( I P i <.05). [Extracted from the article]