Clinical outcomes of spinal surgery in patients treated with hemodialysis.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to review clinical outcomes, including survival rate, and to discuss the potential benefit of surgical treatments for spinal disorders in patients treated with long-term hemodialysis (HD).

Summary Of Background Data: Long-term HD is known to possibly cause destructive spondyloarthropathy (DSA) with spinal canal stenosis.

Retrospective study of deep surgical site infections following spinal surgery and the effectiveness of continuous irrigation.

Surgical site infection (SSI) is an unfortunate and unpreventable complication of any surgical intervention including spinal surgery. Early deep SSI (EDSSI) after instrumented spinal fusion are particularly difficult to manage due to the implanted, and possibly infected, instrumentation. The purpose of this study is to retrospectively review patients who underwent spinal surgery, investigate the rate of EDSSI, identify patient-related and surgery-related risk factors and to assess the effectiveness of continuous indwelling irrigation on the eradication of these infections.

Hamstring muscle function after tendon harvest for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: evaluation with T2 relaxation time of magnetic resonance imaging.

Background: Regeneration of the semitendinosus and gracilis tendons after harvesting for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction has been reported; however, muscle belly function after tendon regeneration has not been well documented.

Hypothesis: The semitendinosus and gracilis muscles are highly activated during knee flexion if their tendons are well regenerated after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Study Design: Descriptive laboratory study.