Morbidity and mortality after spinal deformity surgery in patients 75 years and older: Complications and predictive factors: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 667-674

  Acosta Jr , Frank L ^a   McClendon Jr , Jamal ^c   O'Shaughnessy, Brian A ^d   Koller, Heiko ^e   Neal, Chris J ^f   Meier, Oliver ^e   Ames, Christopher P ^b   Koski, Tyler R ^c   Ondra, Stephen L ^c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Howell Allen Clinic   (United States)

^e German Scoliosis Center   (Germany)

^f WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult spinal deformity; Comorbidity; Complications; Degenerative disease; Spinal fusion; Very elderly patient

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; LEG ISCHEMIA; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; STROKE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CURVATURES; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83055193699     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.7.SPINE10640     Document Type: Article

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