Does BMI Impact Spinopelvic Alignment After Lumbar Fusion Surgery?
This study indicates that increasing BMI is associated with increasing incidence of male sex, comorbidity burden, and worse preoperative sagittal balance. In addition, increasing BMI was independently predictive of failure to attain ideal, long-term postoperative PI-LL mismatch.
Authors
- Gregory Douglas Schroeder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8895-1964)
- Alexander Richard Vaccaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-0796)
- José A. Canseco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2152-5725)
- Alan Hilibrand
- Teeto Ezeonu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3000-6556)
- Ian David Kaye
- Mark F. Kurd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-1088)
- John J. Mangan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4408-1036)
- Molly Milano
- Ali S. Farooqi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-6152)
- Rajkishen Narayanan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-3857)
- Rachel Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7683-8702)
- Robert J. Oris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-0860)
- Jonathan Dalton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7452-2712)
- Daniel Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4295-9765)
- Christopher K. Kepler
- C. C. McCormick
- Ruchir Nanavanti
Institutions
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (US)
- Rothman Orthopaedics (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Spine
- Published
- 2025-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0000000000005369
- Primary Topic
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00