Journal
BMC SURGERY
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12893-022-01598-9
Keywords
Elderly patients; Osteoporosis; Spinal fractures; Postoperative complications; Proximal junctional kyphosis; Kyphosis; Internal fixation
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- Chinese national natural science foundation [81830077, 81772357]
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This study analyzed the risk factors for proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) in patients with chronic symptomatic osteoporotic thoracolumbar fractures (CSOTLF) and kyphosis who underwent long-segment internal fixation. Age, BMI, BMD, PLC injury, fixation position, number of fixation stages, and preoperative indicators were identified as potential risk factors for PJK.
Background This study aimed to analyze the risk factors for proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) for patients with chronic symptomatic osteoporotic thoracolumbar fractures (CSOTLF) and kyphosis who underwent long-segment internal fixation. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients with CSOTLF complicated with kyphosis who underwent posterior multilevel internal fixation in our hospital between January 2013 and January 2020. The patients' age, sex, body mass index (BMI), bone mineral density (BMD), smoking status, cause of injury, comorbidities, injury segments, and American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) grading non-surgical data; posterior ligament complex (PLC) injury, upper and lower instrumented vertebral position (UIV and LIV, respectively), number of fixed segments surgical data, proximal junctional angle (PJA), sagittal vertebral axis (SVA), pelvic incidence (PI), lumbar lordosis (LL), pelvic incidence-lumbar lordosis mismatch (PI-LL), pelvic tilt (PT), and sacral slope (SS) surgical indicators were collected. Patients were divided into postoperative PJK and non-PJK groups. Results This study included 90 patients; among them, 30 (31.58%) developed PJK postoperatively. All patients were followed up for > 24 months (mean 32.5 months). Univariate analysis showed significant differences in age, BMI, BMD, PLC injury, UIV, and LIV fixation position, number of fixation stages, and preoperative PJA, SVA, PI-LL, and SS between the two groups (P < 0.05). Additionally, no significant differences were observed in sex, smoking, cause of injury, complications, injury segment ASIA grade, and preoperative PT between the two groups (P > 0.05). Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that age > 70 years (OR = 32.279, P < 0.05), BMI > 28 kg/m(2) (OR = 7.876, P < 0.05), BMD T value < - 3.5 SD (OR = 20.836, P < 0.05), PLC injury (OR = 13.981, P < 0.05), and preoperative PI-LL > 20 degrees (OR = 13.301, P < 0.05) were risk factors for PJK after posterior long-segment internal fixation in elderly patients with CSOTLF complicated with kyphosis. Conclusion CSOTLF patients undergoing posterior long segment internal fixation are prone to PJK, and age > 70 years, BMI > 28 kg/m2, BMD T value < - 3.5 SD, preoperative PI-LL > 20 degrees and PLC injury may increase their risk.
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