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- The study examined how different rod sizes affect spinal stability in canines after lumbar surgery.
- The research found that while initial stiffness was improved by the rod implants, their contribution to stability decreased over 6 months, regardless of rod size.
- Overall, both rod sizes led to successful fusion, but stiffness in the surrounding vertebral structures changed over time in complex ways.
Article Abstract
Study Design: Canine posterior lumbar instrumentation and fusion.
Objectives: To study effects of implant rod size and time on the stiffness of related spine construct elements.
Summary Of Background Data: The ideal stiffness of posterior spinal implants to successfully treat clinical instability or deformity with minimal side effects is unknown.
Methods: Twenty-six canines were divided into 7 groups: control, and 6 or 12-month survival after sham or lumbar L3-5 arthrodesis (facet, posterior, and posterolateral) with either 4.76 or 6.35 mm diameter rod-pedicle screw instrumentation. Axial flexion-compression stiffness of the L3-5 segment components and axial compression stiffness of the bypassed and adjacent anterior column elements were measured.
Results: Posterior instrumentation initially increased flexion-compression stiffness of the L3-5 segment more than the intrinsic stiffness of the implant due to control of spinal column flexion buckling. Sham operation did likewise, apparently by posterior scar tissue tethering. The percent contribution of the implant construct to instrumented segment stiffness was significantly less at 6 months without further change from 6 to 12 months; 14% and 22% for 4.76 and 6.35 mm rod constructs, respectively. Spinal column as well as posterior column stiffness after fusion was independent of rod size at 6 months and increased at 12 months in only the 4.76 mm rod group. Bypassed L4 vertebral body stiffness decreased significantly at 6 months, was not rod size dependent and changed little between 6 and 12 months. Bypassed disk stiffness responded in a biphasic manner, apparently increasing at 6 months with significant decrease from 6 to 12 months. Adjacent disk compression stiffness progressively decreased over time independent of rod size, also decreasing after sham operation.
Conclusions: Both rod sizes were associated with 100% fusion and produced similar changes in bypassed bone and disks, and adjacent disks. There was delayed fusion stress shielding by 6.35 mm rod constructs.
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