Distinct Recovery Patterns After Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Comparing Minimally Invasive and Open Approaches Using Mixed-Effects Segmented Regression
MIS-TLIF resulted in lower postoperative disability during the first 2 weeks compared to the open approach. Furthermore, low back pain achieved an earlier plateau in back pain by about 4 weeks in the MIS approach.
Authors
- Tomoyuki Asada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-5546)
- Todd J. Albert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4287-1512)
- Russel C. Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3977-9985)
- Eric Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0869-9379)
- Sravisht Iyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-9757)
- Annette Ehrlich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9764-1489)
- Francis Lovecchio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5236-1420)
- Kasra Araghi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0061-2640)
- James Dowdell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-4133)
- Tarek Harhash
- Sheeraz A. Qureshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7177-1756)
- Andrea Pezzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6122-0299)
- Adrian Lui
- Olivia Tuma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0156-7152)
- Sereen Halayqeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1603-075X)
- Han Jo Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7482-6994)
- James C. Farmer
- Harvinder S. Sandhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2013-1828)
Institutions
- Hospital for Special Surgery (US)
- Cornell University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurospine
- Published
- 2025-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.14245/ns.2550096.048
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.36
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences