Ozone therapy is considered by many as an effective therapy for spinal degenerative pathologies. Despite its possible favorable results, we present a series of serious infectious complications, clearly related to ozone therapy and their treatment. The authors discuss their results compared with the literature and advocate for prudence when recommending ozone therapy.
Aging spine may include complex degenerative lesions: spine stenosis, spondylolisthesis, kyphosis, scoliosis, lumbar disc hernias and osteoporosis. We present a case of a patient with multiple level degenerative severe lumbar spine stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, lumbar disc hernia, who was treated succesfully with multilevel spine decompresion,discectomy and multilevel stabilization with transpedicular titan screws.
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