Risk Factors for Postoperative Ileus after Oblique Lateral Interbody Fusion: A Multivariate Analysis

Recently, oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) has become a widely used, efficient surgical approach for various degenerative lumbar conditions, such as spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, and deformity [1-7]. Since OLIF utilizes the oblique ante-psoas corridor, approach-related complications that occur with other existing lumbar interbody fusion approaches such as injuries to major retroperitoneal vessels and peritoneal contents in anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) and proximal lower limb neurological deficits in direct lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF), do not tend to occur with OLIF [2, 8].

Source: The Spine Journal - October 4, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Sung Cheol Park, Sam Yeol Chang, Sujung Mok, Hyoungmin Kim, Bong-Soon Chang, Choon-Ki Lee Tags: Clinical Study Source Type: research