Impact of Patient-specific Factors and Spinopelvic Alignment on the Development of Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Short-segment Lumbar Fusion.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Prospective cross-sectional cohort study.

Objectives

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between demographical, surgery-related and morphologic parameters, and the development or progress of adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) after short-segment lumbar fusions.

Summary of background data

ASD is a major long-term complication after lumbar fusions. Possible risk factors are related to the patients' demographics, spinopelvic anatomy, or preoperative lumbar intervertebral disk conditions, but the role of these parameters is still not clear.

Methods

A prospective cross-sectional study of 100 patients who underwent 1- or 2-level open lumbar transforaminal interbody fusions due to a lumbar degenerative pathology was conducted.

SUBMITTER: Kiss L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10368217 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature