This case report describes a 32-year-old male who presented to an emergency department with severe chest pain and a history of cough, fever, night sweats, loss of appetite and weight. Chest radiography revealed a left upper lobe consolidation and multiple compression deformities in the thoracic spine. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated significant kyphosis and vertebral plana at two thorac...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that pelvic incidence and sacral slope are significantly greater in idiopathic scoliosis patients compared with normal adolescents. However, whether these sagittal parameters are related to the progression of scoliosis remain unknown. The present was designed to determine the differences in the sagittal profiles among thoracic idiopathic scoliosis p...

Results In NP, the average measure of thoracic kyphosis was 37.8°±11.2. In comparison to the normal position, the extent of thoracic kyphosis actually increases when the patient tries actively to emphasize it, both during an inspiratory (43.7±10.4), and an expiratory (45.6±39.7), phase. The average area of the hump doesn’t change significantly: 6.4±3.5 in NP, 6.5±3.5 in SC, 6.5±3.0 during KI, 6...

STUDY DESIGN Medical record-based survey. PURPOSE To survey the overall incidence of the intra- and postoperative complications and sequelae, and to propose the preventive measures to reduce complications in the spinal tuberculosis surgery. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE There is no study focused on the surgery-related complications and sequelae, with some touching lightly on the clinical problems....

This radiologic curvature cut-point offers limited understanding of the overall deformity that occurs in the spines of hyperkyphotic patients. For example, hyperkyphosis can be created by different postures in the sagittal plane and can be localized to different regions in the thoracic spine for a given Cobb angle. Recently, ideal geometric, average geometric, and individual optimized geometric...

BACKGROUND To date, no study had reported the phenomenon of deteriorated postoperative cervical tilt in Lenke type 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cervical tilt in Lenke type 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with right-elevated shoulder treated by either full fusion or partial/non fusion of the proximal thoracic curve. METHODS...

Laws, Nicola, and Andrew Hoey. Progression of kyphosis in mdx mice. J Appl Physiol 97: 1970–1977, 2004. First published July 2, 2004; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01357.2003.—Spinal deformity in the form of kyphosis or kyphoscoliosis occurs in most patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a fatal X-linked disorder caused by an absence of the subsarcolemmal protein dystrophin. Mdx mice, whic...

INTRODUCTION In pediatric spinal deformity the gold standard for curve surveillance remains standing full-column radiographs, but repeated exposure to ionizing radiation motivates us to look for nonradiographic solutions. This study tests a modern system of surface topography (ST) to determine whether it is reliable and reproducible. METHODS Patients from 6 pediatric spinal deformity clinics ...

BACKGROUND Kyphosis is a forward curvature of the thoracic spine that is associated with multiple adverse health outcomes. This cross-sectional study examined the association between kyphosis and sleep characteristics. METHODS Participants were 468 white, community-dwelling individuals (women = 255; men = 213) from the Rancho Bernardo cohort who had kyphosis assessed using a flexicurve ruler ...

OBJECTIVE Serial lengthening with growing rods is recommended every six months for the treatment of early onset scoliosis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal growth of the thorax and control of the deformity in a series of patients with juvenile scoliosis when time intervals were increased between lengthenings. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study of eight patien...