Jian Chen1, Wen-Yuan Sui1, Jing-Fan Yang1, Yao-Long Deng1, Jing Xu1, Zi-Fang Huang2, Jun-Lin Yang3. 1. Spine Surgery Center, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, 1665 Kongjiang Road, Shanghai, China. 2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. 3. Spine Surgery Center, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, 1665 Kongjiang Road, Shanghai, China. yangjunlin@xinhuamed.com.cn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The severe rigid deformity patients with pulmonary dysfunction could not tolerate complicated corrective surgery. Preoperative traction are used to reduce the curve magnitude and improve the pulmonary function before surgery, including halo-gravity traction (HGT) and halo-pelvic traction (HPT). The present study aimed to retrospectively compare the radiographic, pulmonary and clinical outcomes of preoperative HGT and HPT in severe rigid spinal deformity with respiratory dysfunction. METHODS: 81 cases of severe rigid kyphoscoliosis treated with preoperative traction prior to corrective surgery for spinal deformity between 2016 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Two patient groups were compared, HPT group (N = 30) and HGT group (N = 51). Patient demographics, coronal and sagittal Cobb angles and correction rates, pulmonary function, traction time, osteotomy grade, and postoperative neurological complications were recorded for all cases. RESULTS: The coronal Cobb angle was corrected from 140.67 ± 2.63 to a mean of 120.17 ± 2.93° in the HGT group, and from 132.32 ± 4.96 to 87.59 ± 3.01° in the HPT group (mean corrections 15.33 ± 1.53 vs. 34.86 ± 3.11 %) (P = 0.001). The mean major sagittal curve decreased from 134.28 ± 3.77 to 113.03 ± 4.57° in the HGT group and from 129.60 ± 8.45 to 65.61 ± 7.86° in the HPT group (P < 0.001); the mean percentage corrections were 16.50 ± 2.13 and 44.09 ± 9.78 % (P < 0.001). A significant difference in the pulmonary function test results was apparent between the two groups; the mean improvements in the FVC% of the HGT and HPT groups were 6.76 ± 1.85 and 15.6 ± 3.47 % (P = 0.024). The HPT group tended to exhibit more FEV% improvement than the HGT group, but the difference was not significant (5.15 ± 2.27 vs. 11.76 ± 2.22 %, P = 0.91). CONCLUSIONS: Patients with severe rigid kyphoscoliosis who underwent preoperative HPT exhibited better radiographic correction of the deformity, and pulmonary function, and required fewer osteotomies compared to the HGT group. Thus, HPT may be useful for severe rigid spinal deformity patients with pulmonary dysfunction.
BACKGROUND: The severe rigid deformitypatients with pulmonary dysfunction could not tolerate complicated corrective surgery. Preoperative traction are used to reduce the curve magnitude and improve the pulmonary function before surgery, including halo-gravity traction (HGT) and halo-pelvic traction (HPT). The present study aimed to retrospectively compare the radiographic, pulmonary and clinical outcomes of preoperative HGT and HPT in severe rigid spinal deformity with respiratory dysfunction. METHODS: 81 cases of severe rigid kyphoscoliosis treated with preoperative traction prior to corrective surgery for spinal deformity between 2016 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Two patient groups were compared, HPT group (N = 30) and HGT group (N = 51). Patient demographics, coronal and sagittal Cobb angles and correction rates, pulmonary function, traction time, osteotomy grade, and postoperative neurological complications were recorded for all cases. RESULTS: The coronal Cobb angle was corrected from 140.67 ± 2.63 to a mean of 120.17 ± 2.93° in the HGT group, and from 132.32 ± 4.96 to 87.59 ± 3.01° in the HPT group (mean corrections 15.33 ± 1.53 vs. 34.86 ± 3.11 %) (P = 0.001). The mean major sagittal curve decreased from 134.28 ± 3.77 to 113.03 ± 4.57° in the HGT group and from 129.60 ± 8.45 to 65.61 ± 7.86° in the HPT group (P < 0.001); the mean percentage corrections were 16.50 ± 2.13 and 44.09 ± 9.78 % (P < 0.001). A significant difference in the pulmonary function test results was apparent between the two groups; the mean improvements in the FVC% of the HGT and HPT groups were 6.76 ± 1.85 and 15.6 ± 3.47 % (P = 0.024). The HPT group tended to exhibit more FEV% improvement than the HGT group, but the difference was not significant (5.15 ± 2.27 vs. 11.76 ± 2.22 %, P = 0.91). CONCLUSIONS:Patients with severe rigid kyphoscoliosis who underwent preoperative HPT exhibited better radiographic correction of the deformity, and pulmonary function, and required fewer osteotomies compared to the HGT group. Thus, HPT may be useful for severe rigid spinal deformitypatients with pulmonary dysfunction.
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