Treatment of adult thoracolumbar spinal deformity: past, present, and future: JNSPG 75th Anniversary Invited Review Article

JS Smith, CI Shaffrey, CP Ames, LG Lenke - Journal of Neurosurgery …, 2019 - thejns.org
Care of the patient with adult spinal deformity (ASD) has evolved from being primarily
supportive to now having the ability to directly treat and correct the spinal pathology. The …

Recent and emerging advances in spinal deformity

JS Smith, CI Shaffrey, S Bess, MF Shamji… - …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Over the last several decades, significant advances have occurred in the
assessment and management of spinal deformity. OBJECTIVE: The primary focus of this …

Artificial intelligence based hierarchical clustering of patient types and intervention categories in adult spinal deformity surgery: towards a new classification scheme …

CP Ames, JS Smith, F Pellisé, M Kelly, A Alanay… - Spine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Retrospective review of prospectively-collected, multicenter adult spinal
deformity (ASD) databases. Objective. To apply artificial intelligence (AI)-based hierarchical …

Complication rates associated with 3-column osteotomy in 82 adult spinal deformity patients: retrospective review of a prospectively collected multicenter consecutive …

JS Smith, CI Shaffrey, E Klineberg, V Lafage… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Although 3-column osteotomy (3CO) can provide powerful alignment correction
in adult spinal deformity (ASD), these procedures are complex and associated with high …

Sagittal age-adjusted score (SAAS) for adult spinal deformity (ASD) more effectively predicts surgical outcomes and proximal junctional kyphosis than previous …

R Lafage, JS Smith, J Elysee, P Passias, S Bess… - Spine deformity, 2022 - Springer
Background Several methodologies have been proposed to determine ideal ASD sagittal
spinopelvic alignment (SRS–Schwab classification) global alignment and proportion (GAP) …

Epidemiology and socioeconomic trends in adult spinal deformity care

MM Safaee, CP Ames, JS Smith - Neurosurgery, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Adult spinal deformity (ASD) has gained significant attention over the past decade with
improvements in diagnostic tools, classification schemes, and surgical technique. The …

A novel 4-rod technique offers potential to reduce rod breakage and pseudarthrosis in pedicle subtraction osteotomies for adult spinal deformity correction

S Gupta, MS Eksi, CP Ames, V Deviren… - Operative …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) can be used to treat rigid sagittal
plane deformities. Nonunions and rod breakages are known complications of PSO …

Complications in adult spine deformity surgery: a systematic review of the recent literature with reporting of aggregated incidences

A Zanirato, M Damilano, M Formica, A Piazzolla… - European Spine …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose To review the incidence of perioperative and late complications of surgery for
spinal deformity (ASD). Methods Review of the literature. We reviewed recent literature in …

Pseudarthrosis in adult and pediatric spinal deformity surgery: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis of incidence, characteristics, and risk factors

NE How, JT Street, MF Dvorak, CG Fisher, BK Kwon… - Neurosurgical …, 2019 - Springer
We conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis. This study
aims to characterize pseudarthrosis after long-segment fusion in spinal deformity by …

Development and validation of risk stratification models for adult spinal deformity surgery

F Pellisé, M Serra-Burriel, JS Smith, S Haddad… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2019 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery has a high rate of major complications
(MCs). Public information about adverse outcomes is currently limited to registry average …