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COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 143, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105320
Keywords
Adjacent segment; Biomechanics; Lordotic cage; Porous cage; Finite element model
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- National Key Research and Devel-opment Projects, China [2016YFC1101904]
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This study investigates the impact of a lordotic porous cage on the biomechanical performance of adjacent segments. The results indicate that changes in ROM, IDP, and FJF at the adjacent segments are primarily influenced by the lordotic angle of the cage, rather than the porosity.
Biomechanical changes at the adjacent segments after interbody fusion are common instigators of adjacent segment degeneration (ASD). This study aims to investigate how the presence of a lordotic porous cage affects the biomechanical performance of the adjacent segments. A finite element model (FEM) of a lumbar spine implanted with a lordotic cage at L3-L4 was validated by in-vitro testing. The stress distribution on the cage and range of motion (ROM) of L3-L4 were used to assess the stability of the implant. Three angles of cage (0 degrees = non-restoration, 7 degrees = normal restoration and 11 degrees = over-restoration) were modelled with different porosities (0%, 30% and 60%) and evaluated in the motions of flexion, extension, lateral bending and rotation. The ROM, intervertebral disc pressure (IDP) and facet joint force (FJF) were used to evaluate biomechanical changes at the adjacent segments in each model. The results indicated that porous cages produced more uniform stress distribution, but cage porosity did not influence the ROM, IDP and FJF at L2-L3 and L4-L5. Increasing the cage lordotic angle acted to decrease the ROM and IDP, and increase the FJF of L4-L5, but did not alter the ROM of L2-L3. In conclusion, changes in ROM, IDP and FJF at the adjacent segments were mainly influenced by the lordotic angle of the cage and not by the porosity. A larger angle of lordotic cage was shown to reduce the ROM and IDP, and increase the FJF of the lower segment (L4-L5), but had little effect on the ROM of the upper segment (L2-L3).
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