Perioperative morbidity and complications in minimal access surgery techniques in obese patients with degenerative lumbar disease.

ABSTRACT: The medical profession is increasingly confronted with the epidemic phenomenon of obesity. Its impact on spine surgery is not quite clear. Published data concerning the use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in the spine among obese patients is scarce. The purpose of the present retrospective study was to evaluate perioperative as well as postoperative complication rates in MIS fusion of the lumbar spine in obese, overweight and normal patients classified according to their body mass index. Lumbar MIS fusion was performed by means of TLIF procedures and/or posterolateral fusion alone. A laminotomy was performed in patients with spinal stenosis. Of 72 patients, 39 underwent additional laminotomy for spinal stenosis. No differences were registered in respect of the numbers of fused segments

SUBMITTER: Senker W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176708 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature