The study authors examined patients with disc degeneration and spinal stenosis on an MRI to identify risk factors for developing early-onset radiographical adjacent segment disease using the multivariate logistic regression analysis.
The researchers found:
1. Ten years after surgery, the patients showed at the caudal-adjacent level:
• Changes in disc height: 12 cases
• Vertebral slip: 36 cases
• Intervertebral angle on radiographs: 17 cases
2. At the cranial-adjacent level, increased disc degeneration was noticed in 62 cases and spinal stenosis worsened in 68 cases.
3. At the caudal-adjacent level, there was increased disc degeneration for 25 patients and worsening spinal stenosis in 12 cases 10 years after surgery.
4. There were 10 patients — 9.9 percent — who required reoperations. Eighty percent of the revision surgeries were performed more than five years after the initial surgery.
5. The researchers found high pelvic incidence was a risk factor for developing the early onset radiographical adjacent segment disease.
“Obtaining appropriate lumbar lordosis in PLIF is important for preventing ASD,” concluded the study authors.
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