Comparison of Complication Rates Between Initial and Re-operative Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Surgery: Is There a Difference?

Running, not enrolling

Conditions studied: Lumbar Spondylolisthesis, Lumbar Spine Degeneration

In brief

To identify the current mortality rate for initial Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion(ALIF)procedures. Establish/prove mortality rates for this operation have dropped in the past decade.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05945550

Run by

Methodist Health System

People needed

3500

Starts

2020-12-28

Expected to finish

2028-12-28

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients > 17 years of age, patients having had ALIF procedures as defined by CPT codes at participating Methodist facilities during 2010-2020 targeted.

You may not qualify if…

• Pediatric patients (as defined by age <18 years old), pregnant women and incarcerated individuals. We do not anticipate any of these in an elective spine surgery group of patients. If they have emergency spine surgery it is normally not an ALIF.

Where it is running

• Methodist Dallas Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States

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