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Observational studyMedicine2019

The valuation of concave-side thoracoplasty on the treatment of extremely severe scoliosis with severe pulmonary dysfunction on the base of halo-pelvic traction.

Hehong Zhao, Zhengjun Hu, Deng Zhao, Fei Wang, Rui Zhong, Yijian Liang

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Observational study in Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hehong ZhaoDepartment of Respiratory.
Zhengjun HuDepartment of Orthopedics, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Deng ZhaoDepartment of Orthopedics, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Fei WangDepartment of Orthopedics, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Rui ZhongDepartment of Orthopedics, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Yijian LiangDepartment of Orthopedics, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, China.
Chengdu Third People's Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extremely severe scoliosis patients, especially main thoracic Cobb' s angle >150°, often have severe thoracic deformity and pulmonary dysfunction, even the scoliosis is reduced by halo-pelvic traction, the improvement of pulmonary function is not satisfactory, the risk of spinal osteotomy in the next stage is still very high and left with obvious thoracic deformity. How to further improve the pulmonary function and appearance of these patients is a difficult problem to be solved.Twenty extremely severe scoliosis patients with severe pulmonary dysfunction who underwent concave-side thoracoplasty in our hospital from September 2014 to September 2017 were included, data of thoracic volume and pulmonary function were collected before and after operation. The pulmonary function value reported was predicted forced vital capacity (FVC%), T-test was used to analyze the changes of the data by the statistical software SPSS21.0.The 20 patient's averaged Cobb's angle of main thoracic was 163° ± 8° at admission and all of them with severe pulmonary dysfunction before concave-side thracoplasty. After operation, the thoracic volume of patients increased by 500.9 ± 222.9 mL, FVC% increased by 8.9% ± 7.5%. Both the difference has statistical significance (P < .01).Concave-side thoracoplasty based on the halo-pelvic traction cannot only enlarge the volume of the concave thoracic cavity, lighten the compression of lung and further improve the pulmonary function of extremely severe scoliosis, but also can strengthen the correction of scoliosis and spinal rotation. Therefore, it is a safe and effective surgical approach.

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AdolescentAdultFemaleHumansLungMaleRetrospective StudiesScoliosisThoracoplastyTractionYoung Adult

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