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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 Veeravagu
Published 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.
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