Association between preoperative controlling nutritional status score and surgical site infection following instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion
Yongjun Liu, Xiaoyan Chen, Leisheng Wang, Yan Ding · 2026
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Description
Yongjun Liu and three colleagues review records of 1,414 patients who had a common lower-back fusion operation, asking whether a simple nutrition score predicts surgical site infection. The score, called CONUT, is built from routine blood measures of albumin, cholesterol, and lymphocyte count. All patients had the fusion with metal hardware at one hospital between January 2021 and March 2025. Infections arising within twelve months after surgery were counted.
Forty-three patients developed an infection, about three in every hundred. Risk stayed flat at low scores, then began climbing around a score of three. Patients at or above that level faced roughly two and a half times the odds of infection after other factors were counted. The authors say the cheap score could help surgical teams flag patients for nutrition support before operating, though outside checks are still wanted.
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| CREATOR | Yongjun Liu, Xiaoyan Chen, Leisheng Wang, Yan Ding |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |