Study Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively database.

Objective: Implant-related complications are an extremely important issue because they pose a burden to patients who underwent surgery. An understanding of these complications can help improve the postoperative management of patients undergoing spinal surgery. The current large-scale multicenter study aimed to identify postoperative implant-related complications that may require revision surgery.

Methods: In total, 3447 patients who underwent spinal fusion surgery were included in the analysis. Data about age at surgery, sex, preoperative diagnosis, surgical level, type of implant-related complications, causes of reoperation, and time from the initial to revision surgery were reviewed. Moreover, the characteristics of reoperation in 3 periods (within 30, 31-90, and over 90 days) were assessed.

Result: The overall incidence of implant-related complications was 4.6%. Adult spinal deformity was the most common diagnosis (9.9%), and thoracic-lumbar-sacral (42.9%) was the most common surgical level among patients with implant-related complications. Further, screw malposition was the most frequent implant-related complication (42.8%). In total, 89 (2.6%) patients underwent reoperation due to implant-related complications. The main causes of reoperation within 30, 31-90, and over 90 days were screw malposition (72.2%), screw loosening or pull out (81.8%), and rod or screw fracture (60.9%), respectively.

Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, this was the first large-scale multicenter study that assessed the characteristics of patients who underwent reoperation due to spinal implant-related complications. The study results could improve the preoperative informed consent procedure about spinal fusion.

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