Assessing the impact of obesity on full endoscopic spine surgery: surgical site infections, surgery durations, early complications, and short-term functional outcomes

CONCLUSIONS: The results highlight the effectiveness and safety of lumbar FESS in obese patients. Unlike with open spine surgery, obese patients did not experience significant increases in surgery time or postoperative complications. Interestingly, obese patients demonstrated faster early recovery, as indicated by significantly greater improvements in ODI and leg pain at 7 days after surgery. However, there was no difference in improvement between the groups at 90 days after surgery.PMID:38064701 | DOI:10.3171/2023.10.SPINE23936

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - December 8, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Jannik Leyendecker Braeden Benedict Chayanne Gumbs Peer Eysel Jan Bredow Albert Telfeian Peter Derman Osama Kashlan Anubhav Amin Sanjay Konakondla Christoph P Hofstetter John Ogunlade Source Type: research