We just saw Janelle and her mom back for follow-up, now 3 months out from her anterior/posterior scoliosis short fusion with Shilla growing rod technique we did with Dr. Richard McCarthy at Arkansas Children’s Hospital back in December. She has no pain, is eating well, and loves her new shape/posture. She looks awesome and happy […]
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Huge surgery went well today. Scrubs Dan Remains Focused and Self Disciplined, only a week to Daytona Bike Week.
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 […]
Flat back becomes beautiful lumbar lordosis
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 […]
Today’s surgery: Harrington rod flat back syndrome in 45 Yo woman
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 […]