Journal
EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 2121-2127Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-017-4959-0
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Osteoporosis/SU; Orthopedic procedures/AE; Teriparatide/TU bisphosphonates; Disability evaluation
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K10816] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Complications of adult spinal deformity surgery are problematic in osteoporotic individuals. We compared outcomes between Japanese patients treated perioperatively with teriparatide vs. low-dose bisphosphonates. Fifty-eight osteoporotic adult Japanese female patients were enrolled and assigned to perioperative teriparatide (33 patients) and bisphosphonate (25 patients) groups in non-blinded fashion. Pre- and post-operative X-ray and computed tomography imaging were used to assess outcome, and rates were compared between the groups and according to age. Pain scores and Oswestry Disability Indices (ODI) were calculated before and 2 years after surgery. Adjacent vertebral fractures and implant failure, fusion failure, and poor pain and ODI outcomes were significantly more common in the bisphosphonates group than the teriparatide group. Perioperative administration of teriparatide is more effective than that of low-dose bisphosphonates in preventing complications and maintaining fusion rates in osteoporotic Japanese females with spinal deformities undergoing surgery.
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