Age-Stratified Outcomes of Mehta Casting in Idiopathic Early-Onset Scoliosis: A Multicenter Review.

Background: This study provides age-stratified outcomes of cast treatment for idiopathic early-onset scoliosis.

Methods: This is a multicenter, retrospective review of patients with idiopathic early-onset scoliosis treated with Mehta casting at 4 tertiary children's hospitals between 2001 and 2016. The inclusion criteria were idiopathic early-onset scoliosis and a minimum follow-up of 2 years after casting ended.

Attitudes of Polish Priests and Laymen Towards Death During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic has generated a situation where death is the most commonly used term by humans. The attitudes adopted towards the phenomenon of death are the result of existential life and the presented axiology. Looking at the death of a secular and spiritual person makes it possible to notice the existential and spiritual attitudes of two different social groups, interpenetrating one another and fulfilling different roles.

A multicenter study to evaluate the pharmacokinetics and safety of liposomal bupivacaine for postsurgical analgesia in pediatric patients aged 6 to less than 17 years (PLAY).

Study Objective: To evaluate the pharmacokinetics and safety of liposomal bupivacaine in pediatric patients undergoing spine or cardiac surgery.

Design: Multicenter, open-label, phase 3, randomized trial (PLAY; NCT03682302).

Setting: Operating room.

Baseline patient reported outcome measurement information system (PROMIS) scores in children with idiopathic scoliosis and their relation to the SRS-22.

Purpose: PROMIS is becoming the most commonly utilized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) in adult orthopaedics, but its adoption has lagged in pediatrics. Limited baseline data exists in pediatric-specific orthopaedic diagnoses. The objective of this study was to determine baseline PROMIS scores in patients with idiopathic scoliosis and to evaluate for correlations with the SRS-22.

Pedicle Screw With Increased Cortical Purchase Can Be Inserted With Same Accuracy as the Screw in Straightforward Trajectory Using 3D Modeling Landmarks.

Study Design: Comparison, in terms of insertion accuracy and biomechanical performance, between an increased cortical purchase and straightforward pedicle screw trajectory.

Objective: This study aims to compare a trajectory with increased cortical purchase to the more common straightforward trajectory in terms of strength and insertion accuracy using real-time navigation.

Summary Of Background Data: In previous studies, it was suggested that pedicle screw pullout strength is strongly correlated with bone mineral density, and using a more cortical tract allows a greater portion of the denser bone, the cortex, to be in contact with the screw.