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1. Efficacy of Routine Intraoperative Cranio-Femoral Traction in Surgical Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Curves Measuring Between 50° and 90°.

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Carl, Jacob, Pannu, Gurpal, Chua, Evan, Bacon, Adam, Durbin-Johnson, Blythe, Klineberg, Eric, Roberto, Rolando Figueroa, and Javidan, Yashar

Subjects
adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, blood loss, operative time, retrospective, scoliosis, traction
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STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective Comparative Study, Level III. OBJECTIVE: In patients with scoliosis >90°, cranio-femoral traction (CFT) has been shown to obtain comparable curve correction with decreased operative time and blood loss. Routine intraoperative CFT use in the treatment of AIS

Published
2023

2. The Clinical Correlations between Diabetes, Cigarette Smoking and Obesity on Intervertebral Degenerative Disc Disease of the Lumbar Spine

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Jakoi, Ande M, Pannu, Gurpal, D'Oro, Anthony, Buser, Zorica, Pham, Martin H, Patel, Neil N, Hsieh, Patrick C, Liu, John C, Acosta, Frank L, Hah, Raymond, and Wang, Jeffrey C

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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Nutrition, Clinical Research, Tobacco Smoke and Health, Tobacco, Prevention, Obesity, Stroke, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Metabolic and endocrine, Good Health and Well Being, Degenerative disc disease, Diabetes mellitus, Lumbar spine, Tobacco use, Clinical sciences, Allied health and rehabilitation science
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Study designRetrospective analysis of a nationwide private insurance database. Chi-square analysis and linear regression models were utilized for outcome measures.PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between lumbar degenerative disc disease, diabetes, obesity and smoking tobacco.Overview of literatureDiabetes, obesity, and smoking tobacco are comorbid conditions known to individually have effect on degenerative disc disease. Most studies have only been on a small populous scale. No study has yet to investigate the combination of these conditions within a large patient cohort nor have they reviewed the combination of these conditions on degenerative disc disease.MethodsA retrospective analysis of insurance billing codes within the nationwide Humana insurance database was performed, using PearlDiver software (PearlDiver, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN, USA), to identify trends among patients diagnosed with lumbar disc degenerative disease with and without the associated comorbidities of obesity, diabetes, and/or smoking tobacco. Patients billed for a comorbidity diagnosis on the same patient record as the lumbar disc degenerative disease diagnosis were compared over time to patients billed for lumbar disc degenerative disease without a comorbidity. There were no sources of funding for this manuscript and no conflicts of interest.ResultsThe total number and prevalence of patients (per 10,000) within the database diagnosed with lumbar disc degenerative disease increased by 241.4% and 130.3%, respectively. The subsets of patients within this population who were concurrently diagnosed with either obesity, diabetes, tobacco use, or a combination thereof, was significantly higher than patients diagnosed with lumbar disc degenerative disease alone (p

Published
2017

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