Abstract
Objective
To conduct a systematic review on the effect of robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (R-MIS) on the clinical outcomes and complications of patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs).
Methods
The researchers searched the papers published on PubMed, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, Ovid MEDLINE, Wiley Online Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese biomedical literature service system (SinoMed), and China Medical Association Data. The standardized mean difference (SMD) or mean difference (MD), relative risk (RR), and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated. Besides, the data was merged through the random-effect model or common-effect model. A meta-regression mixed-effects single-factor model was utilized to analyze the sources of heterogeneity.
Results
Twelve studies were included, involving 1042 OVCFs cases. The prognosis of patients treated with R-MIS was significantly improved, such as Oswestry disability index (ODI) score (MD = -0.65, P = 0.0171), Cobb's angles (MD = -1.03, P = 0.0027), X-ray fluoroscopy frequency (SMD = -2.41, P < 0.0001), Length of hospital stay (MD = -0.33, P = 0.0002), and Cement leakage (RR = 0.37, P < 0.0001). However, no obvious improvement was found in the results of Visual analog scale (VAS) score (MD = -0.16, P = 0.1555), Volume of bone cement (MD = 0.22, P = 0.8339), and Operation time (MD = -3.20, P = 0.3411) after being treated by R-MIS. The meta-regression analysis demonstrated that R-MIS presented no significant impact on the covariates of VAS and Operation time.
Conclusion
R-MIS can significantly reduce the patients’ ODI, Cobb’s angles, X-ray fluoroscopy frequency, and Cement leakage ratio, and shorten the Length of hospital stay. Therefore, R-MIS may be an effective method to promote the patients’ functional recovery, correct spinal deformity, reduce the X-ray fluoroscopy frequency, shorten the Length of hospital stay, and reduce the complications of OVCFs bone Cement leakage.
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Abbreviations
- MIS:
-
Minimally invasive surgery
- R-MIS:
-
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery
- OVCFs:
-
Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
- PKP:
-
Percutaneous kyphoplasty
- PVP:
-
Percutaneous vertebroplasty
- R-PKP:
-
Robot-assisted percutaneous kyphoplasty
- R-PVP:
-
Robot-assisted percutaneous vertebroplasty
- VAS:
-
Visual analog scale
- ODI:
-
Oswestry disability index
- NOS:
-
Newcastle-Ottawa scale
- RR:
-
Relative risk
- MD:
-
Mean difference
- SMD:
-
Standardized mean difference
- SD:
-
Standard deviations
- CI:
-
Confidence interval
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Chen, H., Li, J., Wang, X. et al. Effects of robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery on osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of retrospective study. Arch Osteoporos 18, 46 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-023-01234-w
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