1. Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Pediatric Patients With Scoliosis Preparing for Spinal Surgery

   • Theresa Mayes
   • Jennifer M. Anadio
   • Peter F. Sturm

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 369 - 373

2. A Case-Control Study of Body Composition, Prevalence, and Curve Severity of the Patients With Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in the East Part of China

   • Yu Zheng
   • Yini Dang
   • M. S. Wong

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 374 - 380

3. Is Preoperative Fibrinogen Testing Associated With Total Blood Loss in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Correction?

   • Matthew J. Geck
   • Devender Singh
   • Eeric Truumees

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 381 - 386

4. When Does Intraoperative Blood Loss Occur During Pediatric Scoliosis Correction?

   • Sean Wahlquist
   • Montri Wongworawat
   • Scott Nelson

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 387 - 391

5. The Effect of Two Attending Surgeons on Patients With Large-Curve Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion

   • Liam Bosch
   • Carla Boan
   • M. Wade Shrader

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 392 - 395

6. Postoperative Spine Dressing Changes Are Unnecessary

   • Ravi S. Bains
   • Mayur Kardile
   • Cary Idler

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 396 - 400

7. Radiographic and Functional Outcome in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Operated With Hook/Hybrid Versus All-Pedicle Screw Instrumentation—A Retrospective Study in 149 Patients

   • Søren Ohrt-Nissen
   • Dennis W. Hallager
   • Benny Dahl

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 401 - 408

8. Timing of Changes in Three-Dimensional Spinal Parameters After Selective Thoracic Fusion in Lenke 1 Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Two-Year Follow-up

   • Saba Pasha
   • John M. Flynn
   • Harms Study Group

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 409 - 415

9. How Is Pulmonary Function and Exercise Tolerance Affected in Patients With AIS Who Have Undergone Spinal Fusion?

   • Kelly A. Jeans
   • John F. Lovejoy
   • Anna M. McClung

   Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 416 - 423

10. Does Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy Increase Prevalence and/or Progression of Neuromuscular Scoliosis?

    • Kevin R. Walker
    • Susan A. Novotny
    • Linda E. Krach

    Case Series 30 December 2017 Pages: 424 - 429

11. Acute Kidney Injury Secondary to Cell Saver in Posterior Spinal Fusion

    • Anas A. Minkara
    • Albert Y. Lin
    • David P. Roye Jr.

    Case Reports 30 December 2017 Pages: 430 - 434

12. Adjacent Segment Disease 44 Years Following Posterior Spinal Fusion for Congenital Lumbar Kyphosis

    • Avionna Baldwin
    • Addisu Mesfin

    Case Reports 30 December 2017 Pages: 435 - 439

13. Paper #1: Continued deterioration in pulmonary function at minimum 18-year follow-up from early thoracic fusion in non-neuromuscular scoliosis

    • Daniel Bouton
    • Lori Karol
    • Charles Johnston

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 440 - 440

14. Paper #2: Classification of Early Onset Scoliosis (C-EOS) and Pulmonary Function Outcomes

    • Klane White
    • Bompadre Viviana
    • Walter Krengel

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 440 - 441

15. Paper #3: Can TGR change the natural history of pulmonary functions in EOS? Is Radiological Straightness Correlated with Normal Lung Development?

    • Ebru Celebioglu
    • Alper Yataganbaba
    • Muharrem Yazici

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 441 - 441

16. Paper #4: Referral Patterns and Prevalence of Sleep Abnormalities in Children with EOS

    • Gregory Redding
    • Michelle Ho
    • Maida Chen

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 441 - 442

17. Paper #5: Pre-operative Six Minute Walk Performance in Children with Congenital Scoliosis

    • Noriaki Kawakami
    • Hiroko Matsumoto
    • Gregory Redding

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 442 - 442

18. Paper #6: Organ System Anomalies Associated with Congenital Scoliosis: A Retrospective Study of 310 Cases

    • Scott Luhmann
    • Ryan Furdock

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 442 - 443

19. Paper #7: Repeated Anesthetics and Radiographic Imaging during Traditional Growing Rod Management

    • Christopher Migdal
    • Eric Klineberg
    • Rolando Roberto

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 443 - 443

20. Paper #8: Cumulative Anesthesia Exposure in Patients Treated for Early Onset Scoliosis

    • Fady Baky
    • A. Noelle Larson
    • Todd Milbrandt

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 443 - 444

21. Paper #9: Nano-Dose Protocol for 3D Reconstruction of the Spine in Early Onset Scoliosis: Preliminary Results of a Phantom Based and Clinically Validated Study using Stereo-Radiography

    • Peter Heide Pedersen
    • Fred Xavier
    • Raphael Vialle

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 444 - 444

22. Paper #10: 3D Assessment of Spine Growth in Early Onset Scoliosis during Growing Rod Lengthening

    • Burt Yaszay
    • Naveed Nabizadeh
    • Behrooz Akbarnia

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 444 - 445

23. Paper #11: Reliability of spino-pelvic and thoracic measurements with the EOS in patients with magnetically controlled growing rods in-situ

    • Peter Obid
    • Karen Yiu
    • Jason Pui Yin Cheung

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 445 - 445

24. Paper #12: Effectiveness of Bracing Alone in Idiopathic EOS

    • Isabelle Bernardini
    • Franck Accadbled
    • Jérôme Sales de Gauzy

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 445 - 445

25. Paper #13: Early Onset Scoliosis: Results of Cotrel Mehta Casting from a Single Institution

    • Kim Hammerberg
    • Jennifer Schottler

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 446 - 446

26. Paper #14: Curve Reduction, Radiation Exposure, and Anesthesia Exposure in Serial Elongation De-Rotation Flexion Casting

    • Christopher Migdal
    • Joel Lerman
    • Rolando Roberto

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 446 - 446

27. Paper #15: A United Kingdom single centre review of the impact of extended waiting times in Early-Onset Scoliosis: the effect of a delay to surgical treatment of greater than 12 months

    • Morgan Jones
    • Matthew P. Newton Ede
    • David Marks

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 446 - 447

28. Paper #16: HIF-1α critical to Somitogenesis and interacts with the Notch pathway leading to vertebral malformations

    • Angela Yao
    • Frances Farley
    • Ernestina Schipani

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 447 - 447

29. Paper #17: Early Onset Scoliosis within the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS)

    • Jelle Homans
    • Vyaas Baldew
    • René Castelein

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 447 - 448

30. Paper #18: Slow and gradual preoperative Halo Traction provides safe correction of severe scoliosis in patients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

    • Michael To
    • Jason Pui Yin Cheung
    • Kenneth M. C. Cheung

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 448 - 448

31. Paper #19: Utilization and Reliability of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Vertebral Column Resections for Severe Early-Onset Scoliosis

    • Anna McClung
    • Gregory Mundis
    • Growing Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 448 - 449

32. Paper #20: Vertebral Column Resection for Early-Onset Scoliosis: Indications, Utilization and Outcomes

    • Anna McClung
    • Gregory Mundis
    • Growing Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 449 - 450

33. Paper #21: Posterior Vertebral Column Resection (PVCR) for Congenital Thoracic Lordoscoliosis in children under age of 10 with minimum 5 years follow-up

    • Cem Sever
    • Sinan Kahraman
    • Azmi Hamzaoglu

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 450 - 450

34. Paper #22: Unplanned Return to OR for EOS Children: A Comprehensive Evaluation of all Diagnoses and Instrumentation Strategies

    • Jason Anari
    • John Flynn
    • Children’s Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 450 - 451

35. Paper #23: Comparison of Complications and unplanned OR visits between Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods and Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib

    • Benjamin Roye
    • Chun Wai Hung
    • Michael Vitale

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 451 - 452

36. Paper #24: VEPTR Treatment of Early Onset Scoliosis (EOS) in Children without Rib Abnormalities: Long-Term Results of a Prospective, Multicenter Study

    • Ron El-Hawary
    • Kevin Morash
    • Children’s Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 452 - 452

37. Paper #25: Quantifying the ‘Law of Diminishing Returns’ in Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods

    • Adil Ahmad
    • Thejasvi Subramanian
    • Colin Nnadi

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 452 - 452

38. Paper #26: Maximal Force Generated by Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods Decreases with Rod Lengthening

    • Selina Poon
    • Hillard T. Spencer
    • Robert Cho

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 453 - 453

39. Paper #27: Rod lengthening with the magnetically controlled growing rod: factors influencing rod slippage and reduced gains during distractions

    • Jason Pui Yin Cheung
    • Karen Yiu
    • Kenneth M. C. Cheung

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 453 - 453

40. Paper #28: The Best Distraction Frequency for Optimizing Spine and Rod Length Gains with Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods

    • Jason Cheung
    • Karen Yiu
    • Jeff Pawelek

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 453 - 454

41. Paper #29: Does the Type of Proximal Anchor Used During Distraction-Based Surgeries for Patients With Non-Idiopathic EOS Affect Spine Length?

    • Yehia ElBromboly
    • Charles Johnston
    • Ron El-Hawary

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 454 - 454

42. Paper #30: Congenital Spine Deformity with Fused Ribs Treated with Proximal Rib- vs. Spine-Based Growing Constructs

    • Fady Baky
    • Larson A. Noelle
    • Growing Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 454 - 455

43. Paper #31: The Oxford 5 year observational study on 35 patients with Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods (MCGR)

    • Adil Ahmad
    • Thejasvi Subramanian
    • Colin Nnadi

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 455 - 455

44. Paper #32: Early onset scoliosis treated by Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods: Mid- to long-term follow-up and analysis of 5 graduates

    • Jason Pui Yin Cheung
    • Karen Yiu
    • Kenneth M. C. Cheung

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 455 - 456

45. Paper #33: Magnetic Spinal Growth Rods (MCGR) with and without Preoperative Traction for the Treatment of Severe Scoliosis

    • Michelle Welborn
    • Timothy Degan
    • Joseph Ivan Krajbich

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 456 - 456

46. Paper #34: Treatment of Severe Early Onset Scoliosis using Distraction Based Spinal Instrumentation

    • Ilkka Helenius
    • Hanna Oksanen
    • Growing Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 456 - 457

47. Paper #35: Comparison of EOSQ-24 and SRS-22 scores in Congenital Scoliosis

    • Ying Li
    • Michelle C. Burke
    • Frances A. Farley

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 457 - 458

48. Paper #36: Multi-level Congenital Deformities in Early Onset Scoliosis: Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes in Growth Friendly Graduates

    • Naveed Nabizadeh
    • Burt Yaszay
    • Growing Spine Study Group

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 458 - 458

49. Paper #37: A high degree of variability exists in how “safety and efficacy” is defined and reported in growing rod surgery for early-onset scoliosis: A systematic review

    • Pooria Hosseini
    • Areian Eghbali
    • Behrooz Akbarnia

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 459 - 459

50. Paper #38: Cost analysis of a growth guidance system compared with magnetically controlled and traditional growing rods for early-onset scoliosis in the US: an integrated health care delivery system perspective

    • Scott Luhmann
    • Eoin McAughey
    • Richard McCarthy

    Abstracts 30 December 2017 Pages: 459 - 460