STUDY DESIGN  Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE  To analyze the surgical results of a group of patients older than 65 years treated for mild degenerative lumbar scoliosis (<30°) with stenosis, treated with decompression alone or decompression and limited fusion. METHODS  We evaluated 55 patients, all older than 65 years from our prospectively collected database with mild degenerative sc...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Endolymphatic sac decompression is a surgical treatment option for patients with medically intractable Meniere's disease. However, effectiveness is debated because published data show great variability. Outcome-based research studies are useful in incorporating the patient's perspective on the success of treatment. To further assess effectiveness of endolymphatic sac decom...

Delayed neurological deterioration in the absence of direct cord insult following surgical removal and cord decompression is a rare but severe postoperative complication in a small subset of patients with intraspinal meningiomas. To date, the underlying pathophysiology of such a finding remains unclear and ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is considered as the potential etiology in the literatu...

The authors have used bone endoscopy (medulloscopy) to improve the accuracy of the conventional technique for core decompression and grafting in 36 hips with avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Endocopy was found to facilitate debridement of the necrotic bone and to decrease the risk of perforation of the cartilage during debridement. The endoscopy-assisted technique failed, however, to imp...

Cubital tunnel syndrome refers to ulnar nerve compressive neuropathy and most commonly occurs at the level of the elbow. Surgical options include in situ decompression, decompression with anterior transposition of the ulnar nerve, and medial epicondylectomy with or without decompression. With the advancement of endoscopic surgery, techniques of endoscopic in situ decompression of the ulnar nerv...

INTRODUCTION Microvascular decompression has become an accepted surgical technique for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, and other cranial nerve rhizopathies. However, critical complications still exist, and postoperative hemorrhage is one of the most life threatening complications following microvascular decompression. Most of the hemorrhages occur in the infratentorial ...

BACKGROUND To investigate the efficacy of the sole core decompression surgery for the treatment of steroid-induced femoral head osteonecrosis. METHODS The model was established by administration of steroids in combination with horse serum. The rabbits with bilateral femoral head osteonecrosis were randomly selected to do the one side of core decompression. The other side was used as the sham....

Objective :The objective of this study is preserving the joint by preventing the collapse of femoral head in Osteonecrosis of femoral head (ONFH) Methods :In this study patients with early ONFH are treated with core decompression and augmented with bone marrow aspirate concentrate spread on a collagen scaffold . Results : Core decompression augmented with bone marrow aspirate concentrate seems ...

Despite state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment, about 30% of patients suffering neurologic decompression sickness (DCS) exhibit incomplete recovery. Since the mechanisms of neurologic DCS involve ischemic processes which result in excitotoxicity, it is likely that HBO in combination with an anti-excitotoxic treatment would improve the outcome in patients being treated for DCS. There...