Study Design: Prospective multicenter study of adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery.
Objective: To clarify the effect of ASD surgery on each health-related quality of life (HRQOL) subclass/domain.
Summary Of Background Data: For patients with ASD, surgery offers superior radiological and HRQOL outcomes compared with nonoperative care.
Purpose: Cervical spine alignment interests appeared recently and relationships between the pelvis and the cervical spine have been reported but remain unclear. In this study, postoperative changes for cranial, cervical, lumbar and sagittal balance parameters have been measured in adult scoliosis surgery without major sagittal malalignment to appreciate the adaptation of the cervical spine.
Methods: Twenty-nine consecutive patients with a surgical adult degenerative scoliosis treated with a T8-T11 to iliac fusion without PSO or multiple Ponte's osteotomies had preoperative and postoperative full spine EOS radiographies to measure spino-pelvic parameters.