**5. Conclusions**

Postoperative HGS in patients with DCM is correlated with postoperative falls and functional outcome differently in male and female patients. Altogether, our results sugges<sup>t</sup> that postoperative HGS could be used as a surrogate marker for predicting favorable outcomes and neurologic deficit recovery after surgery in DCM patients, provided careful consideration in given to sexual differences therein.

**Supplementary Materials:** The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/article/10 .3390/jcm10091980/s1, Table S1: Pearson correlation analysis of HGS.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, K.A.J., J.-W.K., J.Y., H.-M.L., S.-H.M., K.-S.S., H.-S.K. and B.H.L.; methodology, K.A.J. and B.H.L.; software, B.H.L.; validation, K.A.J. and B.H.L.; formal analysis, K.A.J., J.-W.K., J.Y., H.-M.L., S.-H.M., K.-S.S., H.-S.K. and B.H.L.; investigation, K.A.J., and B.H.L.; resources, K.-S.S., and B.H.L.; data curation, K.A.J. and B.H.L.; writing—original draft preparation, K.A.J. and B.H.L.; writing—review and editing, K.A.J. and B.H.L.; visualization, K.A.J., J.-W.K., J.Y., H.-M.L., S.-H.M., K.-S.S., H.-S.K. and B.H.L.; supervision, K.A.J., J.-W.K., J.Y., H.-M.L., S.-H.M., K.-S.S., H.-S.K. and B.H.L.; project administration, B.H.L. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of Severance hospital, college of medicine, Yonsei university (IRB No. 4-2020-1162 and 7 December 2020).

**Informed Consent Statement:** Patient consent was waived due to retrospective design of study. **Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
