Prevalence of Osteoporosis Treatment and Its Effect on Post-Operative Complications, Revision Surgery and Costs After Multi-Level Spinal Fusion.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Objective

To study the prevalence of pre-operative osteoporosis treatment, and its effect on risk of ORC, revision surgery and costs in osteoporotic patients undergoing ≥3-level spinal fusion for degenerative pathology.

Methods

Patients and procedures of interest were included using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding. Our outcome measures were ORC at 1-year post-operatively and included instrumentation complications, pathological fracture, and revision surgery. Kaplan-Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazards analysis was done to study the effect of osteoporosis treatment on risk of ORC.

Results

We included a total of 849 patients with documented osteop

SUBMITTER: Jain N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210228 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature