Browsing by Autor "Keith H. Bridwell"

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Complications in the Adult Spinal Deformity Patient Having Combined Surgery
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999) Douglas A. Linville; Keith H. Bridwell; Lawrence G. Lenke; Ravishankar Vedantam; Patricia Leicht
The risk of major and minor complications within the first 6 months after surgery is not necessarily greater in the revision group than in the primary group of patients with adult spinal deformity who have combined surgeries. Total parenteral nutrition does appear to have a role in many of these patients.
Prospective Randomization of Parenteral Hyperalimentation for Long Fusions With Spinal Deformity
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001) Mark A. Lapp; Keith H. Bridwell; Lawrence G. Lenke; Christy Baldus; Kathy Blanke; and Theresa M. Iffrig
The administration of postoperative total parenteral nutrition to patients with spinal deformity is safe. No statistical reduction in complications occurred in the total parenteral nutrition group despite a trend toward more rapid normalization of nutritional parameters and a decrease in postoperative nutritional depletion. The anterior/posterior-staged group with the administration of total parenteral nutrition had a lower overall complication rate and a decreased incidence of postoperative nutritional depletion than the one-stage reconstruction group. The difference in the complication rates between the two groups may relate as much to the staging as to the administration of total parenteral nutrition per se. For certain cases it may be more advisable to stage patients and deliver total parenteral nutrition than to manage the cases in a continuous (i.e., same-day) fashion.
String Test Measurement to Assess the Effect of Spinal Deformity Correction on Spinal Canal Length
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001) Keith H. Bridwell; Timothy R. Kuklo; Stephen J. Lewis; Fred A. Sweet; Lawrence G. Lenke; Christy Baldus
Many deformity correction maneuvers, although they do not directly include application of posterior or anterior distraction forces, do indirectly lengthen the spinal canal.