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Correction of Pelvic Obliquity After Spinopelvic Fixation in Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Comparison Study With Minimum Two-Year Follow-up

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Study Design

Single institution cohort data were collected prospectively and reviewed retrospectively.

Objectives

This study aims to compare outcomes among three different instrumentation types: unit rod, iliac screws, and sacral alar iliac (SAI) screws in terms of pelvic obliquity correction in children with cerebral palsy (CP).

Summary of Background Data

The optimal choice for spinopelvic fixation in CP scoliosis with pelvic obliquity is controversial.

Methods

Patients with minimum 2 years’ follow-up were divided into three groups according to instrumentation type and matched based on preoperative pelvic obliquity and coronal major curve magnitude. Radiographic measurements included horizontal pelvic obliquity angle (PO), spinopelvic angle (SPA), coronal and sagittal Cobb angles, and T1 pelvic angle. Procedures were performed in one pediatric institution between 2004 and 2012. All measurements were performed by a single independent reviewer who was not involved in the procedures.

Results

Seventy-seven patients (42 unit rod, 14 iliac screw, and 21 SAI screw) were included. Gender and age distribution was similar across all groups (56% males, 44% females, mean age 13.5 years). Mean follow-up was 3.6 years. Comparing pre- and postoperative measurements, there was a significant decrease (p <.05) in PO, SPA, and coronal major cob angle in all groups. No significant loss of correction occurred during follow-up. Postoperatively, TPA improved in all groups. Nonsymptomatic loosening was noted in 59% of unit rods, 57% of iliac screws, and 52% of SAI screws. One prominent iliac screw needed removal. One nonsymptomatic rod fracture, one infected pseudarthrosis, and one rod malposition occurred in unit rod group.

Conclusions

This study suggests that for correction of pelvic obliquity in cerebral palsy scoliosis, iliac and SAI screws were similar to the unit rod in comparative effectiveness and implant safety profile.

Level of evidence

Therapeutic study, Level III.

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE, 19803, USA

    Oussama Abousamra MD, Tristan Nishnianidze MD, Kenneth J. Rogers PhD, ATC, Ilhan A. Bayhan MD, Petya Yorgova MS & Suken A. Shah MD

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OA (none); TN (none); KJR (none); IAB (none); PY (none); SAS (grants from the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, during the conduct of the study; grants from the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, grants and personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, Inc., outside the submitted work).

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Abousamra, O., Nishnianidze, T., Rogers, K.J. et al. Correction of Pelvic Obliquity After Spinopelvic Fixation in Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Comparison Study With Minimum Two-Year Follow-up. Spine Deform 4, 217–224 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspd.2015.11.001

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