Early pain relief and segmental realignment after two-stage lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) with posterior instrumentation in degenerative lumbar pathology
Meltem Ivren, Basem Ishak, Sebastian Ille, Martin Dugas, Sandro M Krieg, Pavlina Lenga · 2026
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Description
Meltem Ivren and co-authors reviewed in 2026 twenty patients who had two-stage side-approach spine fusion for degenerative lower back disease. Operations combined a lateral fusion step with rear instrumentation, in either order across the group. Pain scores, spinal alignment, blood loss, hospital time, and complications were compared by sequence. Patients averaged in their late sixties with several existing health conditions.
Pain fell clearly after the first stage and fell further after the second operation. Starting with the lateral step tended to give slightly greater early pain relief in the small group. Rear-first operations covered more spinal levels and involved much greater blood loss on average. Hospital stays were far longer when the rear step came first in the sequence comparison. The lateral-first route also gained more disc height between vertebrae. Overall health burden was the only independent predictor of complications found.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Meltem Ivren, Basem Ishak, Sebastian Ille, Martin Dugas, Sandro M Krieg, Pavlina Lenga |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |