Lumbar interbody fusion

Mummaneni, P.V., Pan, J., Haid, R.W., Rodts, G.E. 2004. Contribution of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 to the rapid creation of interbody fusion when used in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion a preliminary report. Invited submission from the Joint Section Meeting on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, March 2004. J Neurosurg Spine 1(1), 19-23. 

Helgeson MD, Lehman RA, Jr., Patzkowski JC, Dmitriev AE, Rosner MK, Mack AW. Adjacent vertebral body osteolysis with bone morphogenetic protein use in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. Spine J 2011 11 507-10. 

Morphine as a continuous subcutaneous dose and a single intrathecal injection for postoperative pain after posterior lumbar interbody fusion in 44 patients provided better analgesia than continuous subcutaneous morphine alone [145 ]. However, adequate monitoring for respiratory depression should accompany the single intrathecal injection mild respiratory depression occurred in one case. 

Yukawa Y, Kato F, Ito K, Nakashima H, MacHino M, Hirano K, Tauchi R. A case-control study of preemptive analgesia for postoperative pain in patients undergoing posterior lumbar interbody fusion continuous subcutaneous morphine alone and combined with intrathecal injection. J Spinal Disord Tech 2010 23 333-7. 

Vertebral osteolysis has been reported as a complication of off-label use of rhBMP-2 in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in two patients [6 ]. The end-plate violation from subchondral cyst formation that was present... 

Blattert, T.R. et al.. Successful transpedicular lumbar interbody fusion by means of a composite of osteogenic protein-1 (rhBMP-7) and hydroxyapatite carrier a comparison with autograft and hydroxyapatite in the sheep spine. Spine, 27,2697,2002. 

Musculoskeletal Ossification induced by rhBMP-2 has been reported an off-label use of the protein was associated with heterotopic ossification surrounding the paraspinal musculature in a case involving posterolateral lumbar spine fusion [7 ] while ectopic intracanal ossification occurred in a patient following transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with rhBMP-2 [8" ]. 

Lehman Jr RA, Kang DG. Symptomatic ectopic intracanal ossification after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with rhBMP-2. Spine J 2012 12(6) 530-1. 

Comer GC, Smith MW, Hurwitz EL, Mitsunaga KA, Kessler R, Carragee EJ. Retrograde ejaculation after anterior lumbar interbody fusion with and without bone morphogenetic protein-2 augmentation a 10-year cohort controlled study. Spine J 2012 12(10) 881-90. 

Keywords— Finite element study, cancellous bone, lumbar interbody fusion, stress distribution. 

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) cage has been used after disc removal to provide the neural elements decompression, anterior column reconstruction, spine segmental stabilize, prevent bone graft collapse or displacement [8,9,10]. Biomechanical characteristics of numerous commercial cages under different design were investigated through some researches [8,11-19]. 

Tsuang YH, Chiang YF, Hung CY et al. (2009) Comparison of cage application modality in posterior lumbar interbody fusion with posterior instrumentation—A finite element study. Medical Engineering Physics 31 565-570... 

Loguidice VA, Johnson RG, Guyer RD et al. (1988) Anterior lumbar interbody fusion. Spine 13 366-9. 

Pfeiffer M, Griss P, Haake M et al. (1995) Standardized evaluation of long-term results after anterior lumbar interbody fusion. Eur Spine J 5 299-307... 

Fantigrossi A Galbusera F, Raimondi MT et al. (2007) Biomechanical analysis of cages for posterior lumbar interbody fusion. Medical Engineering Physics 29 101-109... 

Schleicher P, Beth P, Ottenbacher A et al. (2008) Biomechanical evaluation of different asymmetrical posterior stabilization methods for minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. J Neurosurg Spine 9 363-371. 

Cho W, Wub C, Mehbod AA et al. (2(X)8) Comparison of cage designs for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion A biomechanical study. Oinical Biomechanics 23 (2008) 979-985... 

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