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Impact of Preoperative Symptom Duration on Patient-reported Outcomes After Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Interbody Fusion for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis.

Timothy J HartmanJames W NieFatima N AnwarAndrea M RocaAlexandra C LoyaSrinath S MedakkarKeith R MacGregorOmolabake O OyetayoEileen ZhengVincent P FedericoDustin H MasselArash J SayariGregory D LopezKern Singh
Published in: Clinical spine surgery (2024)
Regardless of the symptom duration before MIS-TLIF for DSpond, patients demonstrate significant improvement in physical function, pain, disability, and mental health. Patients with a GD of preoperative symptoms did not report inferior scores in any PROM domain. Patients with a GD of preoperative symptoms did not suffer inferior rates of clinically meaningful improvement after surgical intervention. These findings should be considered when counseling patients before surgical intervention for DSpond.
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