Clinical Experience of the First 20 Prestige LP Cervical Arthroplasties

Cervical Disc Replacement with Prestige LP Cervical Disc Replacement

An Alternative to Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF)

 

Indications:

Cervical Spondylotic Radiculopathy and or Myelopathy

Average 1.5 year follow up:

20 Prestige LP cervical disc arthroplasties

 

Analysis of Results:

Scoring

Biomechanics

Radiological Analysis

Subsidence and maintenance of decompression

Motion Preservation

Heterotopic Ossification

Analysis of Complications

 

Adjacent Segment Disease Literature- controversial still?

Hilibrand et al.:

2.9% patients each year with ACDF require additional surgery due to adjacent level problems

25% prevalence of new symptomatic disease at a level adjacent to a prior fusion within 10 years.

Hilibrand AS, Carlson GD, Palumbo MA, Jones PK, Bohlman. Radiculopathy and myelopathy at segments adjacent to the site of a previous anterior cervical arthrodesis. HH. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1999 Apr;81(4):519-28.

 

ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES

Cervical Myelopathy from Cervical Disc Prolapse

Female mid twenties

Train Driver

Upper limb numbness since 2003

Deterioration with difficulty to hold pen or chopstick since June 2006

JOA score 15/17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MRI EXAMINATION

IMMEDIATE POST OPERATIVE RADIOGRAPHS

PRE OPERATIVE RADIOGRAPHS

ONE YEAR POST OPERATIVE RADIOGRAPHS

ANALYSIS OF RANGE OF MOTION

ONE YEAR POST OPERATIVE RANGE OF MOTION

RANGE OF MOTION FLEXION PRE VS POST OPERATIVE RADIOGRAPHS

RANGE OF MOTION EXTENSION PRE VS POST OPERATIVE RADIOGRAPHS

 

OVERALL 85% INCREASE IN RANGE OF MOTION

Part 2 Cervical Spondylotic Myeloradiculopathy

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