Assessing knowledge of end-stage kidney disease and treatment options in hospitalized African American patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Objective: African Americans are more likely to develop end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) than whites and face multiple inequities regarding ESKD treatment, renal replacement therapy (RRT), and overall care. This study focused on determining gaps in participants' knowledge of their chronic kidney disease and barriers to RRT selection in an effort to identify how we can improve health care interventions and health outcomes among this population.

Methods: African American participants undergoing hemodialysis were recruited from an ongoing research study of hospitalized patients at an urban Midwest academic medical center.

Renal Replacement Knowledge and Preferences for African Americans With Chronic Kidney Disease.

Background: Renal replacement therapies (RRT) other than in-centre haemodialyses are underutilised by African Americans with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) even though they are associated with reduced costs, morbidity and mortality as well as improved quality of life for patients.

Objectives: To understand African American patients' knowledge of RRT options and how patient, provider and system-factors contribute to knowledge and preferences. Participants' interviews were conducted at the University of Chicago Medical Center with African American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

"I Try Not to Even Think About My Health Going Bad": a Qualitative Study of Chronic Kidney Disease Knowledge and Coping Among a Group of Urban African-American Patients with CKD.

Context: African-Americans with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are more likely to progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, African-Americans are less likely to receive care to delay progression of their CKD and to prepare for ESRD treatment.

Objective: The objectives of the study are to understand knowledge among urban, African-American patients diagnosed with CKD and to discover ways they managed their illness and prepared for kidney disease progression.

International utilization of the SRS-22 instrument to assess outcomes in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: what can we learn from a medical outreach group in Ghana?

Background: Cross-cultural studies on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) populations are limited. This study evaluated the discriminate validity of the Scoliosis Research Society Questionnaire (SRS-22) in Ghana between adolescents with and without AIS. SRS-22 outcomes from AIS and normal adolescents in Ghana were also compared with scores from AIS and normal adolescents in America.

Long-term Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes of Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy for Fixed Sagittal Imbalance: Does Level of Proximal Fusion Affect the Outcome? Minimum 5-Year Follow-up.

Study Design: Retrospective case series of surgically treated adult patients with fixed sagittal imbalance.

Objective: To assess clinical and radiographic changes after pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) to treat adult fixed sagittal imbalance.

Background: Although recent reports have shown favorable clinical outcomes for PSO, few reports have published long-term follow-up outcomes.

Outcome of Revision Surgery in Pediatric Spine Deformity Patients.

Study Design: Retrospective case series.

Objectives: To report the complications and outcomes of pediatric revision spine surgery and review the surgical indications and treatment methods.

Background Summary: Recent reports have shown the necessity of revision spine surgery for pediatric deformities.

Late treatment of tuberculosis-associated kyphosis: literature review and experience from a SRS-GOP site.

Introduction: Spinal tuberculosis (TB) accounts for approximately half of all cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis. Kyphosis is the rule in spinal tuberculosis and has potential detrimental effects on both the spinal cord and pulmonary function. Late-onset paraplegia is best avoided with the surgical correction of severe kyphosis, where at the same time anterior decompression of the cord is performed and the remnants of the tuberculosis-destroyed vertebral bodies are excised.

Axial lumbar interbody fusion (AxiaLIF) approach for adult scoliosis.

Background: AxiaLIF was initially advocated as a minimally invasive, presacral lumbar fusion approach. Its use has expanded in to adult scoliosis surgeries.

Methods: Current literature about AxiaLIF for degenerative lumbar surgery and adult scoliosis surgery were reviewed.

Incidence, risk factors, and natural course of proximal junctional kyphosis: surgical outcomes review of adult idiopathic scoliosis. Minimum 5 years of follow-up.

Study Design: A retrospective case series of surgically treated patients with adult scoliosis.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence, risk factors, and natural course of proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) in a long-term follow-up of patients with adult idiopathic scoliosis undergoing long instrumented spinal fusion.

Summary Of Background Data: Although recent reports have showed the prevalence, clinical outcomes, and the possible risk factors of PJK, quite a few reports have showed long-term follow-up outcome.

Characterization of osteopenia/osteoporosis in adult scoliosis: does bone density affect surgical outcome?

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Objective: The aim of this study is to validate the prevalence of low bone mineral density (BMD) in woman patients with adult scoliosis and to relate that to surgical treatment outcome. Despite reports of the high prevalence of low BMD among female with adolescent idiopathic, these findings have not been substantiated in any comprehensive review of adult scoliosis patients undergoing surgical treatment.

Incidence, risk factors and classification of proximal junctional kyphosis: surgical outcomes review of adult idiopathic scoliosis.

Study Design: Retrospective case series of surgically treated adult scoliosis patients.

Objective: To assess the incidence, risk factors and clinical outcomes of proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) in a large series of adult idiopathic scoliosis patients undergoing long instrumented spinal fusion (.5 vertebrae).