Abstract 088: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges with Spinal Cord Infarction: A Real‐World Experience from a Comprehensive Stroke Center

Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is a rare condition that accounts for only 1% of all ischemic strokes,& 5%‐8% of acute myelopathies. It may present with diverse etiologies, & despite extensive diagnostic workup, 20%‐40% of SCI cases remain cryptogenic. We aim to figure out the diagnostic & therapeutic challenges clinicians face with spinal cord infarction given the scarcity of published data, overlapping clinical/neuroimaging findings with alternate etiologies for acute myelopathy, & utility of spinal diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) sequences in differentiating between different causes of acute myelopathy.