News Health in Focus: Adjacent Level Disease. 9and10news Site Staff. 12-01-2022 at 05:17:51 PM EST ...

Adjacent segment disease following 1,049 posterior lumbar interbody fusions: A retrospective review. Paper #154. Presented at the 2010 North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.

However, one of its critical complications is adjacent segment disease (ASD), a condition characterised by accelerated degenerative changes at the spinal levels neighbouring the fusion site.

"So adjacent segment disease is when people have lumbar fusions, they stop moving at the level at which they've been fused, so adjacent segment disease is when you move a little bit more above ...

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Ellegala also notes that fusing your spine can put more stress on the levels above and below the area of treatment, and this can lead to adjacent segment disease.

Bedor continues, “Being able to provide a solution for Degenerative and Deformity Surgeons alike to address adjacent segment disease and, most importantly, the patient, has been and always will ...

Complications and/or adverse outcomes assessed included HO, ASDG (defined radiographically), adjacent segment disease (defined clinically by symptoms), or other, such as dysphagia or reoperation.

Consequently, the postoperative risk of adjacent segment disease did not increase after fusion surgery in our patient. In addition, the surgically treated levels were completely ankylosed, ...