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ReviewBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Cervical and Lumbar Disc Arthroplasty: A Review of Current Implant Design and Outcomes.

Ian J Wellington, Cameron Kia, Ergin Coskun, Barrett B Torre, Christopher L Antonacci, Michael R Mancini, John P Connors, Sean M Esmende, Heeren S Makanji

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Review in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Cervical disk arthroplasty: The new gold standard?Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Disease (2013) · 2025
    Review
  3. Article
  4. The Future of Arthroplasty in the Spine.International journal of spine surgery · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Treatment of failed cervical total disc replacements in a series of 53 cases and description of a management strategy.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024
    Article
  8. The Decline of Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement.Journal of spine research and surgery · 2024
    Article
  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ian J WellingtonDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6630-2939
Cameron KiaDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5375-9868
Ergin CoskunDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Barrett B TorreDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Christopher L AntonacciDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Michael R ManciniDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4883-6769
John P ConnorsDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Sean M EsmendeDepartment of Orthopedics, Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
Heeren S MakanjiDepartment of Orthopedics, Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
University of Connecticut · USHartford Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While spinal disc pathology has traditionally been treated using fusion-based procedures, recent interest in motion-preserving disc arthroplasties has grown. Traditional spinal fusion is associated with loss of motion, alteration of native spine kinematics, and increased risks of adjacent segment disease. The motion conferred by disc arthroplasty is believed to combat these complications. While the first implant designs resulted in poor patient outcomes, recent advances in implant design and technology have shown promising radiographic and clinical outcomes when compared with traditional fusion. These results have led to a rapid increase in the utilization of disc arthroplasty, with rates of cervical arthroplasty nearly tripling over the course of 7 years. The purpose of this review was to discuss the evolution of implant design, the current implant designs utilized, and their associated outcomes. Although disc arthroplasty shows significant promise in addressing some of the drawbacks associated with fusion, it is not without its own risks. Osteolysis, implant migration, and the development of heterotopic ossification have all been associated with disc arthroplasty. As interest in these procedures grows, so does the interest in developing improved implant designs aimed at decreasing these adverse outcomes. Though they are still relatively new, cervical and lumbar disc arthroplasty are likely to become foundational methodologies for the treatment of disc pathology.

Indexed as

arthroplastybiomechanicsdiscfusionimplantspine

Identifiers

PMID35621505
PMCPMC9137579
OpenAlexW4281391570

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