Summary of guidelines for the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis

AK Chan, V Sharma, LC Robinson… - Neurosurgery …, 2019‏ - neurosurgery.theclinics.com
Methods A systematic literature review was conducted online through the PubMed
database. The following search terms were used to find relevant literature specific to lumbar …

Congress of neurological surgeons systematic review and evidence-based guidelines for perioperative spine: preoperative nutritional assessment

EF Bisson, J Dimar, JS Harrop, DJ Hoh… - …, 2021‏ - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Preoperative malnutrition has been implicated in adverse events after
elective surgery, potentially impacting patient outcomes. OBJECTIVE As a potentially …

Minimally invasive versus open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for grade I lumbar spondylolisthesis: 5-year follow-up from the prospective multicenter Quality …

AK Chan, M Bydon, EF Bisson, SD Glassman… - Neurosurgical …, 2023‏ - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MI-TLIF) has been
used to treat degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis and is associated with expedited …

Decompression alone or decompression and fusion in degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis

FL Wei, CP Zhou, QY Gao, MR Du, HR Gao… - …, 2022‏ - thelancet.com
Background Clinically, there are substantive practice variations in surgical management of
degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. We aimed at evaluating whether decompression …

Machine learning–based preoperative predictive analytics for lumbar spinal stenosis

A Siccoli, MP de Wispelaere, ML Schröder… - Neurosurgical …, 2019‏ - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) following decompression surgery
for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) demonstrate considerable heterogeneity. Individualized …

Develo** nonlinear k-nearest neighbors classification algorithms to identify patients at high risk of increased length of hospital stay following spine surgery

S Shahrestani, AK Chan, EF Bisson, M Bydon… - Neurosurgical …, 2023‏ - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Spondylolisthesis is a common operative disease in the United States, but
robust predictive models for patient outcomes remain limited. The development of models …

Quality Outcomes Database Spine Care Project 2012–2020: milestones achieved in a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine …

AL Asher, J Knightly, PV Mummaneni, MA Alvi… - Neurosurgical …, 2020‏ - thejns.org
The Quality Outcomes Database (QOD), formerly known as the National Neurosurgery
Quality Outcomes Database (N 2 QOD), was established by the NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA) …

A comparison of minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and decompression alone for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis

AK Chan, EF Bisson, M Bydon, SD Glassman… - Neurosurgical …, 2019‏ - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The optimal minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approach for grade 1 lumbar
spondylolisthesis is not clearly elucidated. In this study, the authors compared the 24-month …

A comparison of minimally invasive and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for grade 1 degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: an analysis of the prospective …

AK Chan, EF Bisson, M Bydon, KT Foley… - …, 2020‏ - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND It remains unclear if minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody
fusion (MI-TLIF) is comparable to traditional, open TLIF because of the limitations of the prior …

Leveraging machine learning to ascertain the implications of preoperative body mass index on surgical outcomes for 282 patients with preoperative obesity and …

N Agarwal, AA Aabedi, AK Chan, V Letchuman… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2022‏ - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Prior studies have revealed that a body mass index (BMI)≥ 30 is associated
with worse outcomes following surgical intervention in grade 1 lumbar spondylolisthesis …