Open AccessHealth-related quality of life following decompression compared to decompression and fusion for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: a Canadian multicentre study
Author(s) -
Y. Raja Rampersaud,
Charles G. Fisher,
Albert Yee,
Marcel F. Dvorak,
Joel Finkelstein,
Eugene K. Wai,
Edward Abraham,
Stephen J. Lewis,
David Alexander,
William Oxner
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.032213
Subject(s) - medicine , minimal clinically important difference , decompression , lumbar spinal stenosis , spondylolisthesis , spinal stenosis , claudication , lumbar , neurogenic claudication , quality of life (healthcare) , sf 36 , surgery , physical therapy , cohort , nuclear medicine , health related quality of life , randomized controlled trial , arterial disease , vascular disease , nursing , disease
Decompression alone (D) is a well-accepted treatment for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) causing neurogenic claudication; however, D is controversial in patients with LSS who have degenerative spondylolisthesis (DLS). Our goal was to compare the outcome of anatomy-preserving D with decompression and fusion (DF) for patients with grade I DLS. We compared patients with DLS who had elective primary 1-2 level spinal D at 1 centre with a cohort who had 1-2 level spinal DF at 5 other centres.
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