TY - JOUR
TI - Spinal surgery complications and failures in patients with Parkinsons disease
AU - Sapkas, G.S.
AU - Mavrogenis, A.F.
AU - Papastathis, E.
AU - Tsiavos, K.
AU - Igoumenou, V.
AU - Megaloikonomos, P.D.
AU - Galanopoulos, I.
AU - Soultanis, K.
AU - Papadopoulos, E.C.
AU - Papagelopoulos, P.J.
JO - Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants
PY - 2016
VL - 26
TODO - 1
SP - 1-5
PB - Begell House, Inc
SN - 1050-6934
TODO - 10.1615/JLongTermEffMedImplants.2016013363
TODO - Failure (mechanical);  Surgery, Central nervous systems;  Complications;  Life expectancies;  Medical treatment;  Parkinsons disease;  Spinal disorders;  Spinal surgery;  Substantia nigra, Patient treatment, Article;  device failure;  device migration;  heterotopic ossification;  human;  kyphosis;  length of stay;  medical device complication;  muscle disease;  myopathy;  neurologic disease;  osteolysis;  Parkinson disease;  pseudarthrosis;  radiculopathy;  reoperation;  scoliosis;  spine surgery;  surgical infection;  complication;  Parkinson disease;  postoperative complication;  quality of life;  spine disease, Humans;  Parkinson Disease;  Postoperative Complications;  Quality of Life;  Reoperation;  Spinal Diseases
TODO - Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system affecting the substantia nigra in the midbrain. It accounts for 1.5% of the population in Europe over 60 years of age. Recent advances in the medical treatment of Parkinson’s disease have improved the quality of life and life expectancy of the patients. However, it remains a debilitating disease. Spinal disorders are frequent in these patients, and as the population ages, more patients with Parkinson’s disease are expected to require spinal surgery. Spinal surgery in patients with Parkinson’s disease has been associated with an exceptionally high rate of complications; failures and reoperations are common, and patient outcomes are dismal. © 2016 by Begell House, Inc.
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