• J Bone Joint Surg Am · Mar 2015

    Smaller body size increases the percentage of blood volume lost during posterior spinal arthrodesis.

    • Amit Jain, Paul D Sponseller, Peter O Newton, Suken A Shah, Patrick J Cahill, Dolores B Njoku, Randal R Betz, Amer F Samdani, Tracey P Bastrom, Michelle C Marks, and Harms Study Group.
    • c/o Rachel Box, MS, ELS, Senior Editor, Editorial Services, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, #A665, Baltimore, MD 21224-2780. E-mail address: rbox1@jhmi.edu.
    • J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2015 Mar 18;97(6):507-11.

    BackgroundOur goal was to analyze the relationship between patient size and the proportion of blood volume lost during spinal arthrodesis in patients with a diagnosis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, Scheuermann kyphosis, or cerebral palsy. We hypothesized that smaller patients (those with less blood volume) lose a greater proportion of circulating total blood volume during surgery.MethodsWe reviewed a large, multicenter database, identifying patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (1832), Scheuermann kyphosis (106), or cerebral palsy (196) who had undergone posterior spinal arthrodesis for spinal deformity. Blood volume (estimated from body weight) was used as a measure of patient size. Our primary outcome was the proportion of total circulating blood volume lost (intraoperative blood loss/blood volume, expressed as a percentage).ResultsOn multivariate analysis, there was a negative relationship between intraoperative blood loss/blood volume and blood volume in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (coefficient, -5.8; p < 0.001), Scheuermann kyphosis (coefficient, -2.5; p < 0.001), or cerebral palsy (coefficient, -20.3; p < 0.001), indicating that, despite adjustment for all other factors, smaller patients lost a greater proportion of their blood volume. In patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis or Scheuermann kyphosis, multivariate analysis showed that intraoperative blood loss/blood volume also increased significantly when the patient was male and with a greater number of levels fused.ConclusionsThere is an inverse relationship between the proportion of blood volume lost during deformity correction surgery and size in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, cerebral palsy, or Scheuermann kyphosis.Copyright © 2015 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated.

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