Thanks Annika! Beautiful!!!

Just finished doing a very complex T5-Iliac wing reconstruction for a very pleasant 49 yo woman.  She had a non-instrumented scoliosis fusion as a child, and was left with a large thoracolumbar deformity. She then developed collapse at the levels below, and had an anterior / posterior reconstruction.  She did well quite a while, but […]

Everything went great. At beginning of posterior surgery, her low back and buttock was flat like a washboard. Now, she has a visible "sway" in that lower area and lordosis is improved by 30 degrees. Ebl: 925 cc total for anterior and posterior. Blood transfused: none. Complications none. Surgical time: around 5 hrs It is […]

She has severe progressive back pain w severe loss of disc height below previous Harrington rod fusion done for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis years ago. II just finished doing the anterior part, removing the narrow degenerative L45 and L5S1 discs, then "jacking up" the disc space back to their original teenage height. I then inserted the […]

I received this encouraging word today from Chrissie, a 34 yo woman who had a very painful L5S1 spondylolisthesis with a pars fracture which really interfered with her quality of life. As shown at the bottom, Chrissie gave her permission to share this note with all of you.   It was really a blessing to see […]