Perioperative Predictors of Early Spinal Cord Stimulator Removal: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spinal cord stimulators can offer an effective treatment in chronic pain refractory to conventional medical management. However, with a failure rate of up to 44% and an annual explantation rate of 6-9%, there is a need to better identify patients at high risk for therapeutic failure. The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to determine predictors of early SCS explantation following device placement.

Methods

The Medical Informatics Operating room Vitals and Events Repository database was queried for patients with a spinal cord stimulator and at least two years of follow-up (n = 56). A multivariate logistic regression was fitted. Recursive factor elimination with cross-validation and L1 penalization were used to reduce the number of predictors an

SUBMITTER: Murin PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12299350 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature