• World Neurosurg · May 2024

    Review

    Healing Assessment of Spinal Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review.

    • Sekhar SethySiddharthSDepartment of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India., Samarth Mittal, Nikhil Goyal, P Venkata Sudhakar, Vishal Verma, Aakash Jain, Aman Verma, Madhubari Vathulya, Bhaskar Sarkar, and Pankaj Kandwal.
    • Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India.
    • World Neurosurg. 2024 May 1; 185: 141148141-148.

    ObjectiveDeciding the healing end point in spinal tuberculosis (STB) remains a controversial topic. The current systematic review aims to address the controversy existing in the literature to find a comprehensive method to assess healing in STB.MethodsA thorough literature search was carried out for studies with the assessment of healing parameters in STB. Data extraction was carried out manually, which included study characteristics and healing criteria evaluated in each study.ResultsQualitative analysis of 8 included studies showed that healing parameters were described in 3 domains: clinical, hematologic, and radiologic response of the patient to antitubercular chemotherapy. Each domain included various individual parameters, with clinical and radiologic assessment criteria being used in most of the studies. Improvement in terms of pain, constitutional symptoms, weight gain, neurology; variation in erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein; and changes in radiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography/computed tomography were found to be promising predictors in the assessment of healing.ConclusionsRadiologic response parameters emerged as the maximally used criteria to assess healing in STB. However, in the absence of any statistical analysis and an observed lag in radiologic response, the cumulative effect of all the parameters in 3 domains (clinical, hematologic, and radiologic) can be used to declare a spinal tubercular lesion nonhealing, healing, or healed.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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