Abstract

Purpose Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients are a high-risk population in adult spinal surgery and there is no general consensus regarding the surgical correction of spinal deformity in these patients. We perform long fusion for PD spinal deformity in our institution and this study is a retrospective assessment of the radiological and clinical outcomes of posterior spinal fusion with instrumentation for spinal deformity in Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Highlights

  • there is no general consensus regarding the surgical correction of spinal deformity in these patients

  • Spinal scoliosis and kyphosis were treated with posterior correction

  • 8 patients were treated with instrumentation from the superior thoracic vertebra

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Range of instrumentation and complications in the surgical treatment of spinal deformity in patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Yasumasa Ohyama*, Takahiro Iida, Junya Katayanagi, Ken Mine, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hirokazu Furukawa, Takashi Toumura, Satoru Ozeki. From The 10th Meeting of the International Research Society of Spinal Deformities (IRSSD 2014 Sapporo) Sapporo, Japan. Purpose Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients are a high-risk population in adult spinal surgery and there is no general consensus regarding the surgical correction of spinal deformity in these patients. We perform long fusion for PD spinal deformity in our institution and this study is a retrospective assessment of the radiological and clinical outcomes of posterior spinal fusion with instrumentation for spinal deformity in Parkinson’s disease (PD)

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