ReviewFrontiers in surgery2022
Association between hypoalbuminemia and complications after degenerative and deformity-correcting spinal surgeries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Do nutritional assessment tools (PNI, CONUT, GNRI) predict adverse events after spinal surgeries? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Pooled it
- Postoperative spinal ımplant ınfection defined using a standardized MSIS-EBJIS spine-specific diagnostic framework: risk factors in posterior spinal ınstrumentation surger.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Clinical and Surgical Risk Factors for Wound Healing Disorders Following Non-Instrumented Lumbar Spine Surgery Using Penalized Regression Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Preoperative hypoalbuminemia predicts early complications, mortality, and discharge disposition following surgical resection of spinal metastases: a nationwide study.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 · 2026Article
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- What's worse, obesity or malnutrition in patients undergoing multi-level posterior lumbar instrumentation?Surgical neurology international · 2026Article
- Malnutrition in spondylodiscitis: an overlooked risk factor.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Review
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- Nutritional status is associated with inferior clinical outcomes: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Project analysis of surgically treated spinal vascular lesions.Surgical neurology international · 2025Article
- Comparison of Postoperative Results With Prognostic Nutritional Index for Lumbar Disc Herniation.Cureus · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: The current review was designed to explore if hypoalbuminemia is associated with increased complications in patients undergoing spinal degenerative and deformities surgeries. Methods: The search for eligible studies was conducted on the databases of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and CENTRAL up to 20th June 2022. Complication rates were pooled to obtain odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals. Results: Thirteen studies were included. We found that hypoalbuminemia was significantly associated with increased risk of all complications (OR: 2.72 95% CI: 2.04, 3.63 Conclusion: Hypoalbuminemia is a significant risk factor for complications after spinal degenerative and deformity surgeries. Research is also needed on the role of nutritional support in improving outcomes after spinal degenerative and deformity surgeries. Systematic Review Registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, identifier: CRD42022340024.
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