Gender Differences in Outcomes in Patients Treated for Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures Without Neurological Deficits: Prospective International Multicenter Study
This novel study reports gender differences in thoracolumbar burst fractures in neurologically intact patient. Women do worse with nonoperative management than men. In addition, women do better with operative than nonoperative management in achieving MCID, whereas this was not observed in men. Thus, women benefit to a greater extent from surgical management than do men. These results highlight the importance of personalized treatment that incorporates gender. Future studies should assess gender differences in other traumatic spinal pathologies.
Authors
- Alexander Richard Vaccaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-0796)
- Harvinder Singh Chhabra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5519-9609)
- Eugen Cezar Popescu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5732-5402)
- Raja Bhaskara Rajasekaran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0378-7411)
- Richard Jackson Bransford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2293-5774)
- Jin Tee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7031-4764)
- Andrei Fernandes Joaquim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2645-0483)
- Klaus John Schnake (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-0924)
- Mohammad Mostafa El-Sharkawi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6177-7145)
- F. Cumhur Öner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0858-8243)
- Lorin M. Benneker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5320-5638)
- Marcel F. Dvorak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-8448)
- Charlotte Dandurand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4520-6454)
- Gregory D. Schroeder
- Rishi M. Kanna
- D. Hauri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-4392)
- Ulrich Spiegl
Institutions
- University of Bern (CH)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)
- University of Washington (US)
- AO Foundation (CH)
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (US)
- The Alfred Hospital (AU)
- Harborview Medical Center (US)
- Vancouver General Hospital (CA)
- Malteser Waldkrankenhaus Erlangen (DE)
- Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität (DE)
- Klinik Sonnenhof (CH)
- National Trauma Research Institute (AU)
- Rothman Institute (US)
- Ganga Hospital (IN)
- Assiut University (EG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurosurgery
- Published
- 2025-04-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000003408
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.01
Funders
- AOSpine