Left-sided thoracic curves in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: are the outcomes different?
In AIS, there are no significant differences in surgical characteristics or outcomes between left and right-thoracic curves. Notably, curve direction does not influence correction rate, surgical time, levels fused, length of hospitalization, blood loss, pain, SRS 22 scores, or rates of reoperation, infection, or pseudoarthrosis. There are some variations in radiographic parameters postoperatively that are unlikely to be clinically significant.
Authors
- Jerry Y. Du (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8309-0176)
- Daniel Hedequist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4067-5665)
- Anne M. Dumaine
- Michael P. Glotzbecker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0310-4481)
- Bryan O. Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5945-8804)
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Franciscan Health (US)
- Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (US)
- Shriners Hospitals for Children Medical Center - Lexington (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Spine Deformity
- Published
- 2025-04-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s43390-025-01069-0
- Primary Topic
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00