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Table 3 Overall complication rates for patients underwent surgery for lumbar degenerative scoliosis, 2008-2012 (N = 236)

From: Risk factors for postoperative complication after spinal fusion and instrumentation in degenerative lumbar scoliosis patients

Complication

n

Return to operating room

2

Urinary tract infection

2

Death within 90 d

1

Congestive heart failure in 1 mo after surgery

1

Progressive renal insufficiency

1

Acute renal failure

1

Peripheral nerve injury

3

Bleeding requiring > 4 units of RBCs

7

Pneumonia

5

Reintubation for respiratory or cardiac failure

2

Myocardial infarction

1

Failure to wean > 48 hr

1

DVT/thrombophlebitis

4

Pulmonary embolism

1

Cerebrovascular accident/stroke

1

wound complication

4

  1. Total number of patients in these composites is not the sum of individual complications because some patients had more than 1 complication. RBC indicates red blood cell; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; DVT, deep vein thrombosis.
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

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