Researchers collected health-related quality of life outcomes from 35 patients who were 75 years old or older and underwent one- or two-level instrumented posterolateral lumbar arthrodesis for several diagnoses, including stenosis and spondylolisthesis. There were 12 patients (34 percent) who reported complications, and 23 percent of those complications were major.
All HRQOL measurements showed significant improvement among the patients at the two-year follow-up.
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