Long-term adjacent segment degeneration at average 21-year follow-up of posterior instrumented fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Introduction: Posterior instrumented fusion for progressive adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is generally considered to have good outcomes, but very long-term reviews are rare. Data on adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) following posterior instrumented thoracic fusion for AIS are lacking. The primary aim was to assess the incidence of ASD and to correlate this with radiographic measures and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).

Ten-Year Single Center Retrospective Analysis of Adult Native Ankle Joint Septic Arthritis.

Septic arthritis (SA) of the native ankle joint can result in serious morbidity and mortality but is a poorly quantified issue with little literature available on its clinical features, treatment and outcomes. This was a 10-y review (N ≥ 30) of adults with SA of the native ankle joint presenting to a single center from December 2009 to January 2019. Patients with prior ankle surgery, prosthetic infection, inoculation from trauma, not initially treated at our institution or lost to follow-up were excluded.