Title: Incidence of Complications in the Management of Non-Ambulatory Neuromuscular EOS with a Rib Based Growing System: High- vs Low-Tone Patients
Authors: Norman Ramirez, Gerardo Olivella, Omar Rodriguez, Pablo Marrero, John Smith, Sumeet Garg, Michael Vitale, Tricia St. Hilaire, Randal Betz, Pediatric Spine Study Group
Journal: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology
Date: December 18, 2019
Excerpt:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether patients with high-tone neuromuscular early onset scoliosis have different surgical outcomes and complication rate, when compared to patients with low-tone neuromuscular early-onset scoliosis treated with a rib-to-pelvis dual growing system. High-tone patients had more complications than those with low tone in management of neuromuscular early- onset scoliosis treated with a rib-to-pelvis rib-based dual growing system.
Keywords: Neuromuscular, Early Onset Scoliosis, muscle tone, rib-based growing system