Background/objective: Existing research about surgical start time is equivocal about associations between outcomes and late start times, and there is only one published report investigating start time in spine surgery.…
The vascular wall stores mesenchymal progenitor cells which are able to induce bone regeneration, via direct and paracrine mechanisms. Although much is known regarding perivascular cell regulation of osteoblasts, their…
. 2020 Jun 18;12(6):e8687. doi: 10.7759/cureus.8687. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Neurological Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, USA. 2 Neurological Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA. 3 Biostatistics and…
Background: The United States is facing an opioid addiction epidemic with >63,600 deaths from drug overdoses in 2016 alone. Ketorolac is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has been shown to…
Background: Severe, rigid thoracolumbar scoliosis presents a surgical challenge to achieve 3-dimensional correction, maximize distal motion segments, and avoid operative morbidity conferred by combined anterior-posterior approaches or 3-column osteotomies. We…
. 2020 Jun 30;14(3):321-326. doi: 10.14444/7043. eCollection 2020 Jun. Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 University of Southern California, California, Los Angeles, California. 2 University of Riverside, Riverside, California. 3 Loma Linda…
Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of morbidity resulting in multi-organ dysfunction. Animal studies have shown that hyperglycemia results in stress-induced senescence through the p16-pRb pathway, thereby…
Background: The Short Form-12 (SF-12) was developed as a shorter version of the SF-36, yet there has been limited validation of its reliability at measuring postoperative changes. The purpose of…
Introduction: As minimally invasive spine surgery gains popularity, a focused effort must be made to reduce intraoperative radiation exposure to levels as low as reasonably achievable. Here, we demonstrate the…
Purpose: It is unclear if minimally invasive techniques reduce the rate of perioperative complications when compared to traditional open approaches to the lumbar spine. Our aim was to evaluate perioperative…