Umaru Barrie, Raghuram V Reddy, Mahmoud Elguindy, Donald Detchou, Omar Akbik, Corinne M Fotso, Salah G Aoun, Carlos A Bagley
OBJECTIVE: To compare perioperative outcomes of obese versus non-obese adult patients who underwent degenerative scoliosis spine surgery. METHODS: 235 patients who underwent thoracolumbar adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery (≥4 levels) were identified and categorized into two cohorts based on their body mass indices (BMI): obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2 ; n = 81) and non-obese (BMI <30 kg/m2 ; n = 154). Preoperative (demographics, co-morbidities, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score and modified frailty indices (mFI-5 and mFI-11)), intraoperative (estimated blood loss (EBL) and anesthesia duration), and postoperative (complication rates, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) scores, discharge destination, readmission rates, and survival) characteristics were analyzed by student's t, chi-squared, and Mann-Whitney U tests...
March 2023: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery