Cardiovascular Disease Excess complications result in more hospitalizations, greater costs and higher mortality. HealthDay News — Cardiac complications are more frequent among patients undergoing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A depression screening before lumbar fusion was associated with decreased complications, ED utilizations and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed obesity was associated with increased operative times, blood loss and infection risk. Patients ...

Diabetes increases the risk that spinal fusion surgery will fail Diabetics are nearly three times more likely to have vertebrae fail to fuse together They also are more than twice as likely to have ...

Dr. Beata Lecka-Czernik, left, a professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UToledo, and Dr. Hossein Elgafy, chief of spine surgery at The University of Toledo Medical Center, recently ...

A new study from orthopedic researchers at The University of Toledo has found lumbar spinal fusion procedures are far more likely to fail in individuals with diabetes. We've known for a long time that ...

People often experience muscle pain after spinal fusion surgery due to the surgical techniques involved. However, different techniques can cause less pain, and medications can help reduce the effects ...

Over 400,000 spinal fusion surgeries are performed annually in the United States and as the population ages, that number is expected to rise. The goal of many spinal fusion surgeries is to reduce or ...

According to the North American Community Hub Statistics (NCHstats), back pain affects four in every five people in the United States. The discomfort and loss of mobility that it causes result in 264 ...