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Percutaneous minimal invasive stabilisation of pyogenic thoracal and lumbar spondylodiscitis: Long-term follow-up of 70 patients
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Veröffentlicht: | 21. Mai 2013 |
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Objective: Most adult patients with pyogenic lumbar or thoracic spondylodiscitis are treated with an external orthosis and antimicrobial therapy for several weeks to months. If surgical intervention is required, a combined anterior and posterior approach for debridement and fusion with autologous bone graft or titanium mesh cage is still regarded as gold standard.
Method: We here report on our experience with the use of a minimally invasive percutaneous dorsal pedicle screw-rod spondylodesis in adult patients with pyogenic lumbar or thoracic spondylodiscitis.
Results: 53 patients with lumbar and 17 with thoracic pyogenic spondylodiscitis with a mean back pain of 9/10 on the visual analog scale (VAS) were treated. Immediately after the operation, we calculated a significant reduction of the back pain on the VAS to 1.7, of leukocyte counts and C-reactive protein levels. After a mean of 61 days of continuous antimicrobial therapy during full mobilization, all patients were pain free, and leukocyte counts as well as C-reactive protein levels were normalized.
Conclusions: We conclude that minimally invasive percutaneous fixation is a feasible and effective technique to achieve immediate pain release, avoid long-term immobilization. A dorsoventral procedure seems not to be necessary in most of the cases.