this study compared the effects of anesthesia with isoflurane and tiva (total intravenous anesthesia) on the intensity of body temperature reduction during anesthesia and incidence of chills after lumbar disc surgery. the study was done as a single blinded randomized clinical trial. from 60 patients who underwent lumbar disc surgery, 30 subjects were placed in isoflurane group and 30 in the tiv...

Lumbar discectomy for relief of sciatica in patients with intervertebral disc herniation (IDH) is one of the most wellresearched and common indications for spine surgery. There is good evidence that lumbar discectomy for carefully selected patients with sciatica as the result of lumbar disc herniation provides faster relief of symptoms than nonoperative treatment [1,2]; however, randomized tria...

OBJECTIVE To describe the experience of health among patients 3 years after treatment with a structured physiotherapy model or surgery for lumbar disc herniation. DESIGN A qualitative research study. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS Patients were referred to the orthopaedic clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital with sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation. Twenty patients who were eligible for surgery ...

Evidently disc surgery patients are at higher risk of suffering from depression and anxiety than the general population (1). The authors have concluded that the depression and disability scores of patients with chronic herniated discs before lumbar discectomy significantly decreased after surgery (2). It has long been known that patients with psychological comorbidities often incur long-term di...

AIM To investigate the risk factors for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation (L4/L5 or L5/S1) severe enough to require surgery of the lower spine among 9 isolated populations of Croatian islands and to evaluate predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity of a simple screening test based on the understanding of the risk factors in this population. METHODS In a sample of 1001 examinees from...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although there have been numerous publications on lumbar disc herniation (LDH) treated surgically, there has been little interest in sex differences. It has been shown in many studies that sex differences may be important in certain diseases. We therefore reviewed consecutive register material from one institution for possible gender differences in pre- and postoperative ...

BACKGROUND This study compares the clinical and radiological results of three most commonly used dynamic stabilization systems in the field of orthopedic surgery. METHODS A total of 71 patients underwent single-level posterior transpedicular dynamic stabilization between 2011 and 2014 due to lumbar degenerative disc disease. Three different dynamic systems used include: (1) the Dynesys system...

Intervertebral disc degeneration is considered a major source of low back pain. Recent advances in regenerative medicine have led to promising new approaches for the biological treatment of disc degeneration. Treatment modalities include the administration of growth factors, the application of autologous or allogenic cells, gene therapy, in situ therapy and the introduction of biomaterials or a...

BACKGROUND The increase in total disc replacement procedures performed over the last 5 years has increased the occurrence of patients presenting with postoperative iatrogenic deformity requiring revision surgery. Proposed salvage treatments include device retrieval followed by anterior lumbar interbody fusion or posterior fusion. We propose a novel approach for the correction of disc tilt after...