ArticleInternational journal of spine surgery2018
We Need to Talk about Lumbar Total Disc Replacement.
Article in International journal of spine surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- The Decline of Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement.Journal of spine research and surgery · 2024Article
- Spinal Injections: A Narrative Review from a Surgeon's Perspective.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Single-Level Total Disc Replacement: Index-Level and Adjacent-Level Revision Surgery Incidence, Characteristics, and Outcomes.International journal of spine surgery · 2022Article
- New Hope for Treating Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Microsphere-Based Delivery System.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Biomechanical Investigation Between Rigid and Semirigid Posterolateral Fixation During Daily Activities: Geometrically Parametric Poroelastic Finite Element Analyses.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
- Long-Term Clinical Outcomes With the Activ-L Lumbar Arthroplasty System.International journal of spine surgery · 2020Article
- ICR in human cadaveric specimens: An essential parameter to consider in a new lumbar disc prosthesis design.North American Spine Society journal · 2020Article
- Mobility-Preserving Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: WFNS Spine Committee Recommendations.World neurosurgery: X · 2020Article
- Artificial disc replacement in spine surgery.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Review
- Lumbar intervertebral disc replacement in Australia: An epidemiological study.Journal of craniovertebral junction & spineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundReplacement of a diseased lumbar intervertebral disc with an artificial device, a procedure known as lumbar total disc replacement (LTDR), has been practiced since the 1980s.
methodsComprehensive review of published literature germane to LTDR, but comment is restricted to high-quality evidence reporting implantation of lumbar artificial discs that have been commercially available for at least 15 years at the time of writing and which continue to be commercially available.
resultsLTDR is shown to be a noninferior (and sometimes superior) alternative to lumbar fusion in patients with discogenic low back pain and/or radicular pain attributable to lumbar disc degenerative disease (LDDD). Further, LTDR is a motion-preserving procedure, and evidence is emerging that it may also result in risk reduction for subsequent development and/or progression of adjacent segment disease.
conclusionsIn spite of the substantial logistical challenges to the safe introduction of LTDR to a health care facility, the procedure continues to gain acceptance, albeit slowly. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Patients with LDDD who are considering an offer of spinal surgery can only provide valid and informed consent if they have been made aware of all reasonable surgical and nonsurgical options that may benefit them. Accordingly, and in those cases in which LTDR may have a role to play, patients under consideration for other forms of spinal surgery should be informed that this valid procedure exists.
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