J Korean Orthop Assoc.  2016 Jun;51(3):214-220. 10.4055/jkoa.2016.51.3.214.

Comparative Analysis of Revision Surgery Groups between within 5 Years and More than 10 Years after Lumbar Spinal Fusion Due to Adjacent Segment Disease

• Soh J
• Kim J
• Lee JC
• Shin BJ

• KMID: 2308582
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.2016.51.3.214

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to analyze the risk factors for early adjacent segment disease (EASD) in patients undergoing revision surgery within 5 years from the first operation as compared with those after more than 10 years.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A total of 755 patients with degenerative lumbar disease underwent lumbar spinal fusion of 3 or less segments between August, 1988 and May, 2009. Of these, 44 patients underwent revision surgery due to adjacent segment disease (ASD) until May, 2014. These patients presented with ASD, 19 and 13 of whom underwent revision surgery within 5 years and after more than 10 years of the first one, and were thus assigned to group A (n=19) and group B (n=13), respectively. Thirty-two of these patients were enrolled in this study and baseline and clinical characteristics, including sex, age, fusion method, preoperative diagnosis, the number of fused segments, fusion level, and radiological measurements were compared between the two groups. Radiological measurements included pre- and postoperative lumbar lordotic angle (LLA), pre- and postoperative fusion segment lordotic angle (FSLA), pre- and postoperative FSLA per level and the correction of LLA, FSLA, and FSLA per level. For statistical analysis, univariate analysis with the chi-square test was performed using SPSS 14.0.
RESULTS
In group A, the number of patients undergoing posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) rather than posterolateral fusion, those with postoperative FSLA per level of <20° and the adjacent segment levels to L4-5 and L5-S1 was significantly larger compared with group B (p=0.018, 0.046, and 0.009, respectively.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, our results indicate that the degree of risk of EASD was relatively higher in association with PLIF, postoperative FSLA per level of <20° and the adjacent segment levels to L4-5 and L5-S1.

Keyword

lumbar spine; early adjacent segment disease; revision surgery

MeSH Terms

Diagnosis
Humans
Methods
Risk Factors
Spinal Fusion*

Figure

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  Figure 1 In simple lateral lumbar radiographs, measurements of lumbar lordotic angle (A), fused segment lordotic angle and fused segment lordotic angle per level were estimated (B).

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