European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
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To document the role of sub-clinical infections in disc disorders and investigate the existence of microbiome in intervertebral discs (IVD). ⋯ Our study challenges the hitherto concept of sterility in healthy IVD and documented a microbiome even in MRI normal healthy discs. The varying abundance of bacteria between ND, DD, and DH documents 'dysbiosis' as a possible etiology of DD. Many known pathogens were identified in greater abundance than Propionibacterium acnes, and there was evidence for the presence of the gut/skin/spine microbiome axis.
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To determine the association between postoperative hypoalbuminemia and the development of surgical site infection (SSI) and evaluate whether the supplement of exogenous human serum albumin (HSA) in patients following spinal surgery would decrease the rate of postoperative SSI. ⋯ The present study suggests that postoperative hypoalbuminemia is not associated with the development of SSI after spinal surgery. However, the supplement of HSA following spinal surgery will increase the rate of SSI. These slides can be retrieved under Electronic Supplementary Material.
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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is useful to evaluate lumbar nerves visually and quantitatively. Multi-band sensitivity encoding (MB-SENSE) is a technique to reduce the scan time. This study aimed to investigate if super-multi-gradient DTI with multi-band sensitivity encoding (MB-SENSE) is better in evaluating lumbar nerves than the conventional method. ⋯ High-resolution multi-directional DTI with MB-SENSE may be useful to visualize nerve entrapments and may allow for more accurate DTI parameter quantification with opportunities for clinical diagnostic applications.
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Unfortunately, Fig. 7 and last paragraph of the result section have been incorrectly published. The complete corrected Fig. 7 and last paragraph of the results part (IDP measurements) have been as follows.
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