Open Access<p>Safety and efficacy of cervical disc arthroplasty in preventing the adjacent segment disease: a meta-analysis of mid- to long-term outcomes in prospective, randomized, controlled multicenter studies</p>
Author(s) -
Dariusz Łątka,
Klaudia Kozłowska,
Grzegorz Miękisiak,
Dariusz Łątka,
Jacek Chowaniec,
Tomasz Olbrycht,
Mirosław Łątka
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
therapeutics and clinical risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1178-203X
pISSN - 1176-6336
DOI - 10.2147/tcrm.s196349
Subject(s) - medicine , anterior cervical discectomy and fusion , arthroplasty , visual analogue scale , degenerative disc disease , surgery , randomized controlled trial , meta analysis , myelopathy , dysphagia , adverse effect , cervical spine , lumbar , spinal cord , psychiatry
Cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) has become an alternative treatment for cervical radiculopathy and myelopathy. This technique preserves appropriate motion at both the index and adjacent disc levels and consequently may prevent adjacent segment degeneration (ASD). The authors performed a meta-analysis to compare the safety and efficacy of CDA to those of the gold standard, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). Both surgical and clinical parameters were employed to verify the hypothesis that CDA can reduce the risk of ASD.