World Neurosurg
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To investigate the factors associated with futile recanalization after stent retriever thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion. ⋯ Improving technical expertise with mechanical thrombectomy and shortening the therapeutic time window may improve the prognosis of patients with acute ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion.
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Case Reports
Severe Spinal Cord Compression by Anomalous Vertebral Arteries Treated with Gore-Tex Tape Transposition Technique.
Rare anomalous courses of vertebral arteries in the craniovertebral junction may compress the spinal cord causing myelopathy. We report here the severest form of this pathologic condition successfully treated with transposition of bilateral vertebral artery using Gore-Tex tapes. A 73-year-old man presented with progressive tetraparesis and gait disturbance. ⋯ Pinched by the vertebral artery loops on both sides, the spinal cord was severely deformed. Through the standard midline approach, we carefully transposed both vertebral arteries off the spinal cord, placing them at the optimal position using Tanaka et al's Gore-Tex tape technique originally reported for microvascular decompression. The Gore-Tex tape transposition technique proved to be versatile and useful for safe transposition of the vertebral artery in this challenging case.
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More than 120,000 anterior cervical discectomy and fusions (ACDFs) are performed annually. Pseudarthrosis is a potential delayed adverse event that affects up to 33% of patients. The degree to which this adverse event affects both patient quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes and health care costs is poorly understood. ⋯ This is the first study to characterize the effect of surgical revision for pseudarthrosis on both QOL outcomes and care costs after ACDF. Patients requiring revision experienced significantly poorer QOL outcomes and higher care costs relative to controls.
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Comparative Study
Risk factors for symptomatic contralateral foraminal stenosis after unilateral transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.
The most common cause of contralateral symptoms after unilateral transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) is contralateral foraminal stenosis (FS). This retrospective cohort study aimed to investigate the cause of and risk factors for contralateral FS after unilateral TLIF with a single cage. ⋯ The 2 most meaningful risk factors were the preoperative sagittal range of motion and cage location. Inserting the cage beyond the disc midline, especially in patients with a high preoperative sagittal range of motion (≥9.0°), would help reduce postoperative complications.
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Spinopelvic sagittal parameters have a significant influence on adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) after fusion surgery. The association between ASD and sagittal balance is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the biomechanical influence of various sacral slope (SS) degrees on adjacent segments after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) at the L4-L5 level. ⋯ Decreased SS after lumbar fusion surgery may pose a higher risk of ASD. Therefore, restoring appropriate SS should be considered during decision-making prior to fusion surgery to reduce the risk of degenerative changes.