Risk Factors for Distal Junctional Problems Following Long Instrumented Fusion for Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis: Are they Related to the Paraspinal Muscles

Y Liu, L Yuan, Y Zeng, W Li - Orthopaedic Surgery, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) and proximal junctional … revision due to progressive DJK
after lumbar fusion. Among these … SVA is a reliable radiographic predictor of spinal sagittal …

[HTML][HTML] Paediatric spinal deformity surgery: Complications and their management

SB Roberts, AI Tsirikos - Healthcare, 2022 - mdpi.com
junctional kyphosis (PJK) is defined as a proximal junctional … to the spinal instrumentation
and fusion for spinal deformity. … is a progressive rotational and angular spinal deformity that …

[HTML][HTML] Distal Junctional Failure due to Spondylodiscitis in a Patient with Long Posterior Fixation for Ossified Longitudinal Ligament and Ossified Ligamentum Flavum

KAL Subramaniam, TS Liang, PZ Hao… - … of Orthopaedic Case …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… started on appropriate antibiotics and an extension of fusion. … Junctional failure (JF) after
spinal instrumentation is one of … There is a loss of correction and progressive deformities …

[HTML][HTML] Significant Reduction in Bone Density as Measured by Hounsfield Units in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis or Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis

A Swart, A Hamouda, Z Pennington… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
… to determine independent predictors of mid-fused segment … -fused segments relative to the
mid-fused versus caudal autofused segment comparison. This is likely due to the progressive

[HTML][HTML] Scheuermann's disease surgery. Major problems (Non-systematic literature review (part II))

MV Mikhaylovskiy - Хирургия позвоночника, 2021 - cyberleninka.ru
instrumented spinal fusion area, determined as junctional … development of junctional kyphosis
and indicators of spinal and … First of all, this applies to progressive severe kyphosis due to …

[HTML][HTML] The Influence of Osteoporosis on Mechanical Complications in Lumbar Fusion Surgery: A Systematic Review

A Filley, A Baldwin, AR Ben-Natan, K Hansen… - North American Spine …, 2024 - Elsevier
… as a predictor of complications in adults undergoing elective … risk factor for proximal junctional
kyphosis, particularly due to … disorder characterized by a progressive loss of bone mass …

Long-term adjacent segment degeneration at average 21-year follow-up of posterior instrumented fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

KR Burrows, IS Henzell, G Martin, CV Chisholm… - Spine Deformity, 2023 - Springer
… Posterior instrumented fusion for progressive adolescent … to caudal termination of the fusion
mass in the very long term [20]. … to assess for distal junctional kyphosis. If this was present, …

Treatment Strategies in the Osteoporotic Spine

D Gelvez, K Dong, N Redlich, J Williams… - Orthopedic …, 2024 - orthopedic.theclinics.com
… aging, menopause, progressive inactivity, and decreased … deformity correction, and proximal
kyphosis. These risks must be … with spinal instrumentation and cause delayed bone fusion. …

[HTML][HTML] Revision surgery for tumors of the thoracic and lumbar spine: causes, prevention, and treatment strategy

P Berjano, R Cecchinato, A Pun, S Boriani - European Spine Journal, 2020 - Springer
… graft fusion without any evidence of local recurrence. h In July ’10 she was submitted to a
revision surgery for a caudal junctional kyphosis, … Since October 2017, a progressive kyphotic

[HTML][HTML] Adult degenerative scoliosis–A literature review

A Kelly, A Younus, P Lekgwara - Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020 - Elsevier
… joint degeneration which leads to progressive coronal imbalance on … Predictors of curve
progression that have demonstrated … junctional kyphosis is defined as an increase in kyphosis of …