Methods: Patients who underwent lumbar decompression alone or fusion procedures for radiculopathy or stenosis between 2000 and 2017 with 90 days follow-up were identified by ICD/CPT codes. Each cohort was categorized as no preoperative ESI, less than 30 days, 30-90 days, and greater than 90...
To determine a critical canal dimension in patients with spinal stenosis that predicts response to epidural steroid injections (ESI). Lumbar spinal stenosis patients with a computed tomography scan before ESI were identified through ICD-9/CPT codes. Using a digital caliper, canal dimensions on axial...
Methods. Patients who underwent lumbar decompression alone or fusion procedures for radiculopathy or stenosis between 2000 and 2017 with 90 days follow-up were identified by ICD/CPT codes. Each cohort was categorized as no preoperative ESI, less than 30 days, 30 to 90 days...
Current procedural terminology (CPT) codes were used to search all consecutive patients at a single outpatient academic spine center who received a cervical TF or IL ESI between January 2010 October 2018. All patients with pre and post injection NRS pain scores within 60 days of the injection ...
Patients who underwent interlaminar or transforaminal ESI were identified using CPT codes. Age, BMI, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), immediate change in pain, sex, spinal segmental level of injection, prior opioid use, insurance status, and ethnicity were compared to the four PG measures of ...
Results 41 patients were identified by using ICD9 and CPT codes. Preoperative VAS ranged from 1.5-10 (mean 5.94, SD 2.00). Of the patients, 70.7% had more than 6 months of symptoms before evaluation. The population w as 41% men, 9.8% older than 65 years old, 2.4% with diabetes, ...