Postoperative Complication Burden, Revision Risk, and Health Care Use in Obese Patients Undergoing Primary Adult Thoracolumbar Deformity Surgery.
Kunal VarshneyaDhiraj J PangalMartin Nikolaus StienenAllen L HoParastou FatemiZachary A MedressDaniel B HerrickAtman DesaiJohn K RatliffAnand VeeravaguPublished in: Global spine journal (2020)
Patients diagnosed with obesity who underwent ASD surgery did not demonstrate increased rates of complications, reoperations, or readmissions. However, overall health care use through 2 years of follow-up after index surgery was higher in the obesity cohort.
Keyphrases
- minimally invasive
- healthcare
- coronary artery bypass
- patients undergoing
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- type diabetes
- insulin resistance
- end stage renal disease
- surgical site infection
- autism spectrum disorder
- adipose tissue
- total knee arthroplasty
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- bariatric surgery
- chronic kidney disease
- weight gain
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- prognostic factors
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- intellectual disability
- physical activity
- body mass index
- patient reported outcomes
- patient reported
- social media