Spine

The recognition of risk factors for patients with kyphoplasty — such as the cement viscosity, injected cement volume, vertebral body wall incompetence and history of pulmonary disease — can decrease the risk of complications for the patients, according to an…

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is conducting a study to compare minimally invasive spinal surgery to open spinal surgery, examining factors such as complication rate, recovery time, outcome and cost. Leading this groundbreaking research is Kern Singh, MD, an…

A study published in The Spine Journal found that patients undergoing a revision for posterior spinal fusion are more likely to incur an in-hospital death than patients undergoing primary posterior spinal fusion, according to an article in HealthDay News.

Asymptomatic cervical cord compression is most likely to develop in older male patients with lumbar stenosis at multiple segments, according to an article published in Spine.

While the use of growing rods has produced efficacy in the control of deformity within the growing spine, the surgery also has high rates of unintended autofusion, which can lead to a difficult and moderate correction, according to an article…

Here are 10 articles to improve profits and quality at your spine practice.

Spine Centers of America is opening a third spine surgery center in Union, N.J., on Nov. 11, according to a company news release.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Orthopedics named Vernon T. Tolo, MD, of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles the winner of the Distinguished Service Award, according to a Benzinga news report.

The use of bone morphogenic protein-binding peptide in conjunction with BMP could produce satisfactory fusion outcomes while reducing the costs and side-effects associated with BMP use, according to an article published in Spine.

Vertebroplasty, a procedure where spine surgeons use image guidance to inject bone cement through a needle into the fractured area of the bone, has shown good results for several years and validated by numerous clinical studies worldwide, says David Veino,…