Midlife changes of health-related quality of life in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients who underwent spinal fusion during adolescence.
Tsutomu AkazawaToshiaki KotaniTsuyoshi SakumaShohei MinamiYoshiaki ToriiSumihisa OritaKazuhide InageKazuki FujimotoYasuhiro ShigaGen InoueMasayuki MiyagiWataru SaitoSeiji OhtoriHisateru NikiPublished in: European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie (2017)
Each SRS-22 subscore was similar between 2009 and 2014 surveys. Those scoliosis patients who underwent spinal fusion during adolescence had good HRQOL scores in midlife. Even after five years passed, good conditions were maintained.