OBJECTIVE: Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a common complication after spine surgery and is associated with prolongation of hospital stay, increased hospital cost, increased rate of urinary tract infection, bladder overdistention, and auton...
Machine learning is a rapidly evolving field that offers physicians an innovative and comprehensive mechanism to examine various aspects of patient data. Cervical and lumbar degenerative spine disorders are commonly age-related disease processes that...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
May 8, 2021
As we experience a technological revolution unlike any other time in history, spinal surgery as a discipline is poised to undergo a dramatic transformation. As enormous amounts of data become digitized and more readily available, medical professional...
Pain is a multidimensional experience mediated by distributed neural networks in the brain. To study this phenomenon, EEGs were collected from 20 subjects with chronic lumbar radiculopathy, 20 age and gender matched healthy subjects, and 17 subjects ...
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
Feb 18, 2020
OBJECTIVE: The five-repetition sit-to-stand (5R-STS) test was designed to capture objective functional impairment and thus provided an adjunctive dimension in patient assessment. The clinical interpretability and confounders of the 5R-STS remain poor...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
May 4, 2019
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Data regarding risk of failure of nonoperative management in spinal epidural abscess (SEA) are limited. Given the potential for deterioration with treatment failure, a tool that predicts the probability of failure would be of grea...
INTRODUCTION: Pedicle screws are commonly employed to restore spinal stability and correct deformities. The Renaissance robotic system was developed to improve the accuracy of pedicle screw placement.
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Sep 17, 2025
BACKGROUND: Patient-education materials (PEMs) are essential to improve health literacy, engagement, and treatment adherence, yet many exceed the recommended readability levels. Therefore, individuals with limited health literacy are at a disadvantag...
Journal of inherited metabolic disease
May 1, 2025
Deep learning (DL) is increasingly used to analyze medical imaging, but is less refined for rare conditions, which require novel pre-processing and analytical approaches. To assess DL in the context of rare diseases, this study focused on alkaptonuri...
Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America
May 1, 2025
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly improve radiologists' workflow, improving efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. Current AI applications within spine imaging are approved to accelerate image acquisition time, improv...
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