Abdominal aortic aneurysm is included in the differential diagnosis of lower back pain. Although rare, this important disease can cause potentially lethal complications. In this case, expanding abdominal aortic aneurysm coexisted with intervertebral disc extrusion. The diagnosis of abdominal aortic aneurysm was delayed, putting the patient at risk of aneurysmal rupture. In the management of pat...

Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is common in dogs and can give rise to a number of diseases, such as IVD herniation, cervical spondylomyelopathy, and degenerative lumbosacral stenosis. Although there have been many reports and reviews on the clinical aspects of canine IVD disease, few reports have discussed and reviewed the process of IVD degeneration. In this first part of a two-part re...

BACKGROUND Prosthetic replacement of spinal discs is emerging as a treatment option for degenerative disc disease. Posterior dynamic transpedicular stabilization (PDTS) and prosthetic disc nucleus (PDN) devices have been used sporadically in spinal surgery. METHODS This was a prospective study of 13 patients averaging 40.9 years of age with degenerative disc disease who underwent posterior pl...

STUDY DESIGN  Prospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE  The aim of the study was to compare clinical results and to determine differences in outcomes between anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and disc arthroplasty in patients treated for symptomatic cervical degenerative disc disease. METHODS  Forty patients with cervical degenerative disc disease were treated with ProDisc-C disc ar...

BACKGROUND Degenerative spondylolisthesis is associated with a significant segmental kyphosis at the level of the listhesis. We treated 7 disc spaces with Grade 2 listhesis and/or kyphosis of the slipped disc level with Kineflex disc replacement. METHODS Out of a single-center prospective registry, involving 310 lumbar disc replacement patients, 7 patients underwent a single-level Kineflex di...

BACKGROUND Biomechanical benefits of Total Disc Replacement (TDR) including both the restoration of normal segmental range of motion and the prevention of physiological lumbar lordosis encourage spine surgeons to perform TDR for lumbar disc disease. METHODS A total of twenty patients (mean age: 39.5) who had degenerative disc disease with unilateral disc herniation were operated on between 20...