How Much Lumbar Lordosis does a Patient Need to Reach their Age-Adjusted Alignment Target? A Formulated Approach Predicting Successful Surgical Outcomes

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVES: Identify optimal lumbar lordosis in adult deformity correction to achieve age-adjusted targets and sustained alignment.

METHODS: Surgical adult spinal deformity patients reaching an age-adjusted ideal alignment at one year were identified. Multilinear regression analysis was used to identify the relationship between regional curvatures (LL and TK) that enabled achievement of a given global alignment (T1 pelvic angle, TPA) based on pelvic incidence (PI).

RESULTS: 347 patients out of 1048 available reached their age-adjusted TPA within 5° (60-year-old, 72% women, body mass index 29 ± 6.2). They had a significant improvement in all sagittal parameters (except PI) from pre-operative baseline to 1 year following surgery (P < .001). Multilinear regression predicting L1-S1 based on TK, TPA, and PI demonstrated excellent results (R2 = .85). Simplification of the coefficients of prediction combined with a conversion to an age-based formula led to the following: LL = PI - 0.3TK - 0.5Age + 10. Internal validation of the formula led to a mean error of -.4°, and an absolute error of 5.0°. Internal validation on patients with an age-adjusted alignment revealed similar accuracy across the entire age-adjusted TPA spectrum (ranges of LL errors: ME = .2° to 1.7°, AE = 4.0° to 5.3°).

CONCLUSION: This study provides a simple guideline to identify the amount of LL needed to reach a given alignment (i.e., age-adjusted target) based on PI and associated TK. Implementation of this predictive formula during pre-operative surgical planning may help to reduce unexpected sub-optimal post-operative alignment outcomes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

2023

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Global spine journal - 14(2023), 1 vom: 20. Jan., Seite 41-48

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

McCarthy, Michael H [VerfasserIn]
Lafage, Renaud [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Justin S [VerfasserIn]
Bess, Shay [VerfasserIn]
Ames, Christopher P [VerfasserIn]
Klineberg, Eric O [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Han J [VerfasserIn]
Shaffrey, Christopher I [VerfasserIn]
Burton, Douglas C [VerfasserIn]
Mundis, Gregory M [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Manish C [VerfasserIn]
Schwab, Frank J [VerfasserIn]
Lafage, Virginie [VerfasserIn]
International Spine Study Group (ISSG) [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adult spinal deformity
Age-adjusted alignment targets
Journal Article
Lumbar lordosis
Pelvic incidence
Predictive formula
Regional alignment
Sagittal vertical axis
Thoracic kyphosis

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 27.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/21925682221092003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339721073