20% vertebral loss of L5, post compression fracture.

OBJECTIVE: Aortic neck angulation (ANA) prior to endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and its changes after EVAR are considered important predictors of post-operative complications. We sought to assess the effects of vertebral body height loss on ANA in patients post-EVAR. METHODS: All patients who had undergone EVAR for infrarenal aortic aneurysms in our institution between August 2010 to December 2018 were assessed. Anterior and posterior vertebral body heights were measured in all patients on pre-operative, early post-operative, and follow-up CT scans (T12 - L5 vertebral bodies)...

INTRODUCTION: Implant removal represents almost one third of all elective surgeries in orthopedics. There is no consensus regarding the time and need to remove the implants after vertebral fractures consolidation. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical and radiological effects of implant removal in patients with vertebral type A fracture who underwent a percutaneous intervention. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We evaluated 31 patients (mean age of 38.2±7.5 years) with thoracolumbar vertebral fracture (T11-L5) who underwent implant removal surgery after 24 months of fracture first surgery by a percutaneous approach...

INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the effectiveness of percutaneous image-guided vertebral body stenting (VBS) at restoring vertebral height in acute, stable, traumatic thoracolumbar fractures in a young, non-osteoporotic population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A single-centre retrospective review of all traumatic non-osteoporotic fractures treated with VBS between 2010 and 2017 was performed. Inclusion criteria included patients with recent (< 10 days), symptomatic and stable thoracolumbar compression fractures...

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study. OBJECTIVES: To report the results and the technique of posterior vertebral column resection (PVCR) in fixed lumbosacral deformity. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Fixed lumbosacral deformity has gross imbalance as well as progressive compensatory thoracolumbar deformity because of the absence of a mobile spine caudally. There is no consensus of the surgical treatment of fixed lumbosacral deformity. Fixed lumbosacral deformity can be managed by PVCR, which not only corrects the deformity but also restores the trunk balance by translation of spinal column...