However, many pain management and rehabilitative options are available fordegenerative disc disease. If patients can find a way to manage their back pain and maintain their function, the prognosis is quite favorable. The long-term progression of disc degeneration involves the inflammatory prote...
Disc loss is one of the central processes in the pathogenesis of DDD. In this study, we investigated whether the image texture features quantified from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could be appropriate markers for diagnosis of DDD and prognosis of inter-vertebral disc loss. The main objective...
Lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) has shown satisfactory clinical outcomes with few complications and reoperations at short-term follow-up, but the mid- to long-term results are not clear. The objective of this study was to evaluate the mid- to long-te
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A high-quality study of a large sample size and long-term follow-up period is still needed to compare the results of OLIF and MISTLIF. Conclusion Both OLIF and MISTLIF with bilateral decompression via unilateral approach are effective treatments for mild to moderate symptomatic DLSS. While both...
Thus, the rationale for regular health-checkups is that the frequency of the diabetic complications, especially vascular complications, increases with disease duration30. Thus, it is possible to assume that the status of diabetic patients with complications may be categorized as long-standing or ...
9 This complication is reported in 10.2% of patients with posterior fusion and instrumentation70 and is reported even more frequently in long-term follow-up. Adjacent segment degeneration is a radiographic finding as compared with symptomatic adjacent segment disease. Adjacent segment degeneration is ...
However, the long-term curative effect after spinal fusion is closely related to adequate decompression during the operation, and the decompression effect of the two groups is the same, so the long-term follow-up results also show that there is no difference between the two groups [20]. ...
DCM is a multifactorial disorder instigated by static and dynamic mechanical compression of the cervical spinal cord. Causes for static compression include degenerative disc disease (DDD) and congenital cervical stenosis. DDD also results in cervical microinstability, and over time this causes secondary ...
Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) is one of the most common causes of low back pain, and is a major factor in limiting the quality of life of an individual usually as they enter older stages of life, the disc degeneration reduces the shock absorption available which in turn causes pain. ...