What Are the Patient-Reported Outcomes, Complications, and Radiographic Results of Lumbar Fusion for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis in Patients Younger Than 50 Years?

CONCLUSIONS: Young patients with lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis commonly, but do not always, experience clinically meaningful gains in pain relief, function, and quality of life after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. A low risk of complications, reoperations, nonunion and adjacent-segment degeneration were also noted in this population. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study. PMID: 32282533 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - April 7, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Goh GS, Tay YWA, Yue WM, Guo CM, Tan SB, Chen JL Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research