• Eur Spine J · May 2024

    Sagittal alignment of diverse mechanical complications following adult spinal deformity surgery.

    • Changyu Pan, Anouar Bourghli, Daniel Larrieu, Louis Boissiere, Javier Pizones, Ahmet Alanay, Ferran PelIise, Frank Kleinstück, Ibrahim Obeid, and European Spine Study Group.
    • Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Digital Spine Research Institute, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China. 198202130@csu.edu.cn.
    • Eur Spine J. 2024 May 1; 33 (5): 185718671857-1867.

    PurposeTo compare the sagittal alignment of patients with diverse mechanical complications (MCs) following adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery with that of patients without MCs.MethodsA total of 371 patients who underwent ASD surgery were enrolled. The sagittal spinopelvic parameters were measured preoperatively and at the 6-month and last follow-up, and the global alignment and proportion (GAP) score was calculated. The subjects were divided into non-MC and MCs groups, and the MCs group was further divided into rod fracture (RF), screw breakage (SB), screw dislodgement (SD) and proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) subgroups.ResultsPreoperatively, the RF group had greater thoracolumbar kyphosis (TLK) and relative upper lumbar lordosis (RULL); the SB group had the largest pelvic incidence (PI) and lumbar lordosis (LL); the SD group had the least global sagittal imbalance; and the PJK group had the highest thoracic kyphosis (TK), TLK and RULL. At the last follow-up, the RF and SB groups featured a large PI minus LL (PI-LL), while the PJK group featured a prominent TK; all the MCs subgroups had sagittal malalignment and a higher GAP score, and the SB group had the most severe cases. Logistic regressions showed that the relative spinopelvic alignment (RSA) score was correlated with RF, SB and SD, while the RSA and age scores were associated with PJK.ConclusionEach patient with MCs had individual characteristics in the sagittal plane following ASD surgery, which may be helpful to understand the pathophysiology of poor sagittal alignment with its subsequent MCs and guide an eventual revision strategy.© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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