Survival of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who underwent spinal deformity correction.
Ayesha ArshadAthanasios I TsirikosPublished in: Developmental medicine and child neurology (2023)
Survival of up to two decades or more was possible among young patients with DMD after scoliosis correction. This was affected by factors that related to disease and deformity severity, as well as surgical morbidity.