Background: Posterior lumbar fusions are a common and successful procedure, yet surgical site infection (SSI) is still prevalent and causes significant morbidity. Obesity is a well-established risk factor for SSI.…
Background: While national databases provide large datasets that can be used to understand trends over time, their correlation with prospectively collected data from local registries has not been established. The…
Background: Postoperative pain management of multilevel lumbar fusion remains challenging. There are few reports of opioid-sparing regional analgesia for spine surgery. We present a novel method for surgeon-placed erector spinae…
Background: Lumbar synovial cysts are thought to signal facet joint degeneration and possible instability, leading some surgeons to routinely add a fusion to the decompressive procedure. These recommendations were formulated…
Background: This retrospective observational study aimed to evaluate the impact of sarcopenia on surgical site infection (SSI) risk in patients who undergo posterior lumbar fusion. While many studies have investigated…
. 2022 Jun 11;14(6):e25858. doi: 10.7759/cureus.25858. eCollection 2022 Jun. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Neurosurgery, People's Friendship University, Moscow, RUS. 2 Division of Spine Surgery, Russian Academy of Sciences,…
Context: Despite increasing utilization of fusion to treat degenerative pathology, few studies have evaluated outcomes with pelvic fixation (PF). This is the first large-scale database study to compare multilevel fusion…
Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the effect of focal lordosis and global alignment and proportion (GAP) scores on patient reported outcome…
Background: In recent years, there has been increasing interest in outpatient spine surgery. Minimally invasive techniques have created an opportunity for ambulatory lumbar fusion, and these techniques increasingly involve advanced…
Background: Patients with a reported penicillin allergy (PA) receive alternative antibiotics that may not be as effective as cephalosporins for surgical site infection (SSI) prophylaxis. While patient-reported PA has been…