Publications by authors named "Umut Can Duymaz"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates if the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) can predict the occurrence of pseudoarthrosis in patients after short-segment lumbar decompression and fusion for degenerative spine disorders.
- Data was collected from patients treated between 2013 and 2023, analyzing their comorbidities, smoking status, and anthropometric measures using the Subcutaneous Fat Index (SFI).
- The findings suggest that higher CCI scores are linked to increased rates of pseudoarthrosis post-surgery, with a notable cut-off score of 2.5 indicating a higher risk in patients.
Recent spine studies focused on identifying whether intradiscal vacuum phenomenon (VP) was associated with spinal instability. However, none of them reported a direct association between VP and spinal instability following fusion for degenerative lumbar spine disorders (DSDs), namely junctional disorders. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate whether the VP was predictive for junctional disorders in patients who underwent short-segment lumbar decompression and fusion for DSDs at a tertiary spine center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: In this study we aimed to identify whether paraspinal muscle morphology could play a role in surgical decision-making in patients with lumbar spondylolisthesis.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a prospectively collected database between January 2013 and May 2023. Consecutive women and men, who visited our outpatient clinics with chronic LBP, neurogenic claudication, and had lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for their complaints were included into the preliminary dataset.