April 8, 2021 - Routinely collected data on patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery do not provide a valid basis for assessing and comparing hospital performance on patient safety outcomes, reports ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with abnormalities in trabecular and cortical microarchitecture may be at higher risk for complications ...

A Michigan Medicine study found that preadolescent children with severe neuromuscular scoliosis who are treated with growth-friendly surgery prior to spinal fusion have more complications and ...

Scoliosis, the sideways curvature of the spine, affects millions of adolescents in the United States each year. The majority of them will not require any treatment, and only a small percentage will ...

While there is limited literature examining the potential connection, a team of orthopedic specialists sought further answers. They ultimately found that patients with a history of cannabis use are ...

Cardiovascular Disease Excess complications result in more hospitalizations, greater costs and higher mortality. HealthDay News — Cardiac complications are more frequent among patients undergoing ...

Lown researchers found that U.S. hospitals performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries ...

The microscopic structure of bone appears to predict which patients will experience poor outcomes after spinal fusion, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A depression screening before lumbar fusion was associated with decreased complications, ED utilizations and ...

A new study from orthopedic researchers at The University of Toledo has found lumbar spinal fusion procedures are far more likely to fail in individuals with diabetes. "We've known for a long time ...

Note: an earlier version of this article incorrectly said a significantly higher than expected number of spinal fusion patients at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center needed an ...

Dr. Beata Lecka-Czernik, left, a professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UToledo, and Dr. Hossein Elgafy, chief of spine surgery at The University of Toledo Medical Center, recently ...