New Study Predicts Post-Op Spine Complications
By Admin | August 19, 2024
Wait, we are using a preop risk assessment for thoracic and lumbar fusions that lacks bone quality information? Yep…but perhaps that is changing.
New work from the Twin Cities Spine Center in Minnesota and Loma Linda University Medical Center in California has found that adding bone health information “significantly” improved the predictive ability to predict complications.
The study, “Adding Vertebral Bone Quality to the Fusion Risk Score: Does It Improve Predictions of Postoperative Complications?” was published in the July 1, 2024, edition of Spine.
“The Fusion Risk Score was introduced by Hartin et al. [here] at the Twin Cities Spine Center in 2013 as a method of objectively quantifying the risk of postoperative complications in patients undergoing thoracic and lumbar fusion surgery,” explained co-author Omar Ramos, M.D.
“It was later validated by Deogaonkar et al. in 2018. The Vertebral Bone Quality score was presented in 2019 by Ehresman et al. as a tool to assess bone quality using a lumbar MRI and predict vertebral compression fractures in patients with spinal metastasis. Since then, multiple studies have reported...(More)
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