CHICAGO — Results presented here showed high volume facilities and surgeons had lower complication and readmission rates after lumbar spinal fusion surgery compared with low volume facilities and surgeons.“It is apparent that not only do high volume surgeons make an impact on patient outcomes, but the hospital where these surgeries are performed also has an impact, likely due to the
CHICAGO — Results showed a high-dose injection of allogeneic disc progenitor cells for treatment of degenerative disc disease yielded statistically significant improvements in low back pain, function, quality of life and disc volume.“Early data shows not only can we decrease patients’ back pain, improve their function as measured by the Oswestry Disability Index, [and] decrease
CHICAGO — Patients who have acute spine trauma without insurance may receive fewer resource-intensive procedures, such as operative fixation or MRI imaging, compared with patients who have insurance, according to results presented here. “Certainly, the clinical outcomes are worse with uninsured status, and the disparities in the workup, in terms of the diagnostic and therapeutic
CHICAGO — Results presented here showed a significantly greater overall clinical success rate with cervical disc replacement in patients with cervical disc disease compared with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.“These results add to the growing body of literature supporting disc replacement for treating two-level cervical disc disease with radiculopathy and/or