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Recent Updates in Geriatric Spine Surgery
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Recent Updates in Geriatric Spine Surgery

A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Surgery".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 892

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sang-Il Kim

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Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Interests: spinal deformity; cervical spine disease; orthopedic
Dr. Young Yul Kim

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Guest Editor
Daejeon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Interests: cervical spine; biomaterial; minimally invasive surgery; osteoporosis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As human life expectancy is continuously increasing, the medical need to treat spine problems in the elderly population is also increasing. However, it is believed that spine surgery in elderly patients can cause more frequent complications than in younger patients. Also, elderly patients often suffer from several problems, such as poor bone quality or comorbidities, hindering favorable surgical outcomes. To improve surgical outcomes and reduce complications, these problems should be considered and assessed preoperatively and managed peri-/postoperatively.

Recently, other potential risk factors have emerged, including sarcopenia, frailty, or malnutrition, as well as traditional risk factors, which have been studied in geriatric fields. Therefore, preoperative optimization cannot be overemphasized. Also, minimally invasive spine surgery is attracting much attention in surgical fields.

This Special Issue, entitled “Recent Updates in Geriatric Spine Surgery”, aims to share research on and recent experiences regarding geriatric spine surgery.

We invite any papers related to geriatric spine surgery, including case series, retrospective or prospective clinical studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Valuable editorials and expert review articles are also welcome.

Dr. Sang-Il Kim 
Dr. Young Yul Kim
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • age
  • geriatric
  • spine surgery
  • outcome
  • management
  • complication
  • degenerative
  • minimally invasive surgery
  • preoperative optimization

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The Effects of Longer Use of Teriparatide on Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes after Spinal Fusion in Geriatric Patients
by Young-Hoon Kim, Kee-Yong Ha, Hyun W. Bae, Hyung-Youl Park, Young-Il Ko, Myung-Sup Ko and Sang-Il Kim
Medicina 2024, 60(6), 946; https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina60060946 - 6 Jun 2024
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Background: Teriparatide is an anabolic agent for osteoporosis and is believed to improve the bone healing process. Previous studies showed that teriparatide could enhance not only fracture healing but also spine fusion. It has been reported that use of teriparatide could promote [...] Read more.
Background: Teriparatide is an anabolic agent for osteoporosis and is believed to improve the bone healing process. Previous studies showed that teriparatide could enhance not only fracture healing but also spine fusion. It has been reported that use of teriparatide could promote the spine fusion process and decrease mechanical complications. However, there was no consensus regarding optimal treatment duration. The purpose of this study was to compare surgical outcomes between short-duration and long-duration teriparatide treatment after lumbar fusion surgery in elderly patients. Materials and Methods: All consecutive patients older than 60 years who underwent 1-level lumbar fusion surgery for degenerative diseases between January 2015 and December 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Based on the duration of teriparatide treatment (daily subcutaneous injection of 20 µg teriparatide), patients were subdivided into two groups: a short-duration (SD) group (<6 months) and a long-duration (LD) group (≥6 months). Mechanical complications, such as screw loosening, cage subsidence, and adjacent vertebral fractures, were investigated. Postoperative 1-year union rate was also evaluated on computed tomography. Clinical outcomes were recorded using visual analog scale (VAS) and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). Between-group differences for these radiographic and clinical outcomes were analyzed. Results: Ninety-one patients were reviewed in this study, including sixty patients in the SD group and thirty-one patients in the LD group. Their mean age was 72.3 ± 6.2 years, and 79 patients were female. Mean T-score was −3.3 ± 0.8. Cage subsidence (6.7% vs. 3.2%), screw loosening (28.3% vs. 35.5%), and adjacent vertebral fracture (6.7% vs. 9.7%) were not significantly different between the SD and LD groups. Union rate at 1-year postoperative was 65.0% in the SD group and 87.1% in the LD group (p = 0.028). Both groups showed improvement in VAS and ODI after surgery. However, the differences of VAS from preoperative to 6 months and 1 year postoperative were significantly higher in the LD group. Conclusions: Longer teriparatide treatment after lumbar fusion surgery resulted in a higher union rate at 1-year postoperative than the shorter treatment. Also, it could be more beneficial for clinical outcomes. Full article
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