Objective: Junctional ectopic tachycardia is common after cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease. However, its incidence and related risk factors in infants are not well known. The objective of this study was to determine the overall junctional neonates infants. Methods: We enrolled a total 271 patients aged

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of kyphosis in a Turner syndrome (TS) population. METHODS Standing lateral thoracic spine and standing anterior-posterior (A-P) scoliosis radiographs were obtained on all girls with TS between the ages of 5 and 18 years seen in a TS clinic between July 2000 and March 2001. Medical histories were reviewed, and a pediatric orth...

Congenital cervical kyphosis is a rare clinical condition. The purpose of this study was to review the surgical management and outcomes of 12 consecutive cases of congenital cervical kyphosis management by the same surgical team. The authors retrospectively analyzed the records of 12 patients (5 men and 7 women) with an average age of 18.4 years (range, 15-31 years) who underwent surgery for co...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of laminoplasty in patients with cervical kyphosis is controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the initial pathogenesis on the clinical outcomes of laminoplasty in patients with cervical kyphosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 137 patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) or ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament ...

Surgical treatment of thoracolumbar burst fractures with posterior short-segment pedicle fixation usually provides excellent initial correction of kyphotic deformity, but a significant amount of correction can be lost afterwards. This study evaluates the clinical relevance of the short-segment pedicle fixation supplemented by laminar hooks (2HS-1SH) construct in the surgical treatment of thorac...

BACKGROUND Although thoracic vertebral malformations with kyphosis and scoliosis are often considered incidental findings on diagnostic imaging studies of screw-tailed brachycephalic breeds, they have been suggested to interfere with spinal biomechanics and intervertebral disc degeneration. It is however unknown if an abnormal spinal curvature also predisposes dogs to develop clinically relevan...

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of stage I posterior osteotomy and instrumentation followed by stage II anterior debridement and bone grafting in patients with lumbar spinal tuberculosis (TB) with severe kyphosis. The records of patients with lumbar spinal TB and severe kyphosis treated with 2-stage surgery at our hospital from 2005 to 2010 were retrospectively reviewed....