Predominantly negative impact of diabetes on spinal surgery: A review and recommendation for better preoperative screening.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with IDDM or NIDDM undergoing spine surgery exhibited more perioperative complications/AE/morbidity, longer LOS, and higher readmission/reoperation rates vs. non DM. PMID: 28680726 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Surgical Neurology International - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Surg Neurol Int Source Type: research