Incidence and Resolution Strategies for Early-Onset Postoperative Leg Pain Following Lumbar Total Disc Replacement

Autor:	Ashley Bonner, Richard D. Guyer, Nicole Ferko, Aaron Situ, Donna D. Ohnmeiss
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Total Disc Replacement medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Investigational device exemption Surgery Lumbar Pharmacotherapy Post-hoc analysis Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinical significance business Adverse effect Body mass index
Zdroj:	Int J Spine Surg
ISSN:	2211-4599
DOI:	10.14444/8128
Popis:	BACKGROUND: Lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) has produced results similar or superior to fusion in treating symptomatic disc degeneration. Some patients have reported onset of leg pain early after surgery. Little information is available specifically on this problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of early-onset postoperative leg pain following lumbar TDR and to describe strategies for its treatment. METHODS: The study was based on a post hoc analysis of prospectively collected adverse event data from 283 patients in the activL Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption study. Early-onset leg pain was defined as occurring between 0 and 4 weeks postprocedure, and the baseline visual analog scale score in the affected leg(s) was
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