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Clinical Application and Practice of Modern Techniques in Spine Surgery
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Special Issue "Clinical Application and Practice of Modern Techniques in Spine Surgery"

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2024 | Viewed by 859

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gilad J. Regev

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1. Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2. Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Interests: spine; spine surgery; cervical spine; thoraco-lumbar spine; spinal deformities; minimally invasive surgery; navigation; robotics; emerging technologies
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Dr. Morsi Khashan
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Guest Editor
1. Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2. Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Interests: spine; spine surgery; cervical spine; thoraco-lumbar spine; spinal deformities; minimally invasive surgery; navigation; robotics; emerging technologies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Spine surgery has evolved dramatically in the last few decades. Advancements in imaging technology have allowed for a more precise diagnosis and better understanding of spinal disease. The developments in implant technology, navigation and robotic systems, as well as visual aids for minimally invasive techniques, enable surgeons to perform more complex and less invasive procedures. These technological advancements also improve the safety of spine surgery, making it more appropriate for older and frailer patients. The use of microscopes and endoscopes has improved minimally invasive spine surgery, which has also gained increasing popularity in the last decades due to easier recovery, and lower infection rates and blood loss rates.

In this Special Issue, we aim to share the experiences of world-leading spine surgeons through original research articles, as well as formal systematic and literature reviews. We hope that this issue will help promote and disseminate online the most up-to-date scientific and clinical research into innovations and advancements in spine surgery, and highlight the remaining challenges in search of solutions.

Dr. Gilad J. Regev
Dr. Morsi Khashan
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Clinical Medicine is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • spine surgery
  • spinal disease
  • spine deformity
  • oncological spine surgery
  • minimally invasive spine surgery
  • navigation
  • robotics
  • emerging technologies

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Does Tobacco Smoking Affect the Postoperative Outcome of MIS Lumbar Decompression Surgery?
by
Morsi Khashan
,
Dror Ofir
,
Uri Hochberg
,
Haggai Schermann
,
Gilad J. Regev
,
Zvi Lidar
and
Khalil Salame
J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12(9), 3292; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12093292 - 05 May 2023
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Background: Tobacco smoking is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Several authors reported a significant negative impact of smoking on the outcome of spinal surgeries. However, comparative studies on the effect of smoking on the outcome of minimally invasive (MIS) [...] Read more.
Background: Tobacco smoking is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Several authors reported a significant negative impact of smoking on the outcome of spinal surgeries. However, comparative studies on the effect of smoking on the outcome of minimally invasive (MIS) spinal decompression are rare with conflicting results. In this study, we aimed to evaluate clinical outcomes and postoperative complications following MIS decompression in current and former smoking patients compared to those of non-smoking patients. Methods: We used our prospectively collected database to retrospectively analyse the records of 188 consecutive patients treated with MIS lumbar decompression at our institution between November 2013 and July 2017. Patients were divided into groups of smokers (S), previous smokers (PS) and non-smokers (N). The S group and the PS group comprised 31 and 40 patients, respectively. The N group included 117 patients. The outcome measures included perioperative complications, revision surgery and length of stay. Patient-reported outcome measures included a visual analogue scale (VAS) for back pain and leg pain, as well as the Oswestry disability index (ODI) for evaluating functional outcomes. Results: Demographic variables, comorbidity and other preoperative variables were comparable between the three groups. A comparison of perioperative complications and revision surgery rates showed no significant difference between the groups. All groups showed significant improvement in their ODI and VAS scores at 12 and 24 months following surgery. As shown by a multivariate analysis, current smokers had lower chances of improvement, exceeding the minimal clinical important difference (MCID) in ODI and VAS for leg pain at 12 months but not 24 months postoperatively. Conclusions: Our findings show that except for a possible delay in improvement in leg pain and disability, tobacco smoking has no substantial adverse impact on complications and revision rates following MIS spinal decompressions. Full article
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