Trends in Adolescent Lumbar Disk Herniation

Frino, John; McCarthy, R.; Sparks, C.; McCullough, Frances L

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“…Varlotta et al 22 found that in adolescent patients with disc herniation that a larger proportion of individuals had a positive family history of disc herniation than in control subjects. This finding was subsequently further supported by other investigators, such as Frino et al 23 reports of the Finnish Twin Study, cigarette smoking status was found to greatly increase the ability of predicting LDD. 33 .…”

Section: Genetic Component Of Lumbar Disc Degenerationsupporting

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Genetics of Lumbar Disk Degeneration: Technology, Study Designs, and Risk Factors

Kao

Chan

Samartzis

et al. 2011

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

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Lumbar disk degeneration (LDD) is a common musculoskeletal condition. Genetic risk factors have been suggested to play a major role in its cause. This article reviews the main research strategies that have been used to study the genetics of LDD, and the genes that thus far have been identified to influence susceptibility to LDD. With the rapid progress in genomic technologies, further advances in the genetics of LDD are expected in the next few years.

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Section: Genetic Component Of Lumbar Disc Degenerationsupporting

confidence: 74%

Genetics of Lumbar Disk Degeneration: Technology, Study Designs, and Risk Factors

Kao

Chan

Samartzis

et al. 2011

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

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“…The first descriptions of familial predisposition for lumbar IDD were found in juvenile and adolescent populations (103)(104)(105)(106). The study of juvenile lumbar disc herniation is especially interesting since in young patients, normal disc aging and risk factors such as occupation, smoking and comorbidities have little, if any, influence on disease predisposition.…”

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The etiology of intervertebral disc degeneration

Kalichman¹

2010

IBMS BoneKEy

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Intervertebral discs are pads of fibrocartilage having the capacity to maintain stability under a wide variety of loading conditions, while permitting intersegmental motion of the spine and showing degenerative and aging changes earlier than any other connective tissue in the body. Disc degeneration may manifest as disc space narrowing, disc bulging, protrusion, extrusion, sequestration, annular tears, reduced signal intensity on magnetic resonance imaging, Schmorl's nodes and vertebral rim osteophytes. It is believed to be clinically important since disc degeneration has been found to be associated with back pain. This Perspective describes how disc degeneration can be distinguished from normal disc aging and reviews factors associated with intervertebral disc degeneration, with a focus on genetic factors in particular. IBMS BoneKEy. 2010 November;7(11):388-405.

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“…Post-operative infection, e.g. wound infection and discitis secondary to lumbar spine surgery is rare in children and adolescents with only few cases being reported in the literature [15,46,67]. Although there have been reports of narrowing of disc space, foraminal stenosis and adjacent disc degeneration from few months to several years after discectomy, the clinical outcome was not affected accordingly [46,49,60,63].…”

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A review of current treatment for lumbar disc herniation in children and adolescents

Dang

Liu

2009

Eur Spine J

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Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a common disorder among adults with degenerated lumbar intervertebral discs. However, its occurrence in childhood and adolescence is much less frequent mostly because children and adolescents tend to have a healthier lumbar spine as compared with adults. This difference indicates that children and adolescents are far from being just little adults. Over the years, there have constantly been published studies concerning this entity where the findings suggested that pediatric LDH is, in many ways, different from that in adults. To date, the prevalence, the etiological and the diagnostic features of pediatric LDH have been fully described in the literature whereas the characteristics regarding to the treatment is yet to be reviewed in details. The aim of the present review is to provide a collective opinion on the treatment of pediatric LDH as well as its outcome. It reviewed the relevant information available in the literature and compared the results among and within various treatments. It was found that pediatric patients responded less favorably to conservative treatment as compared with adults. In addition, the outcome of surgery remained to be satisfactory for at least 10 years after the initial operation, even though it appeared to deteriorate slightly. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first literature review focusing on the treatment of pediatric LDH.

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Trends in Adolescent Lumbar Disk Herniation

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Genetics of Lumbar Disk Degeneration: Technology, Study Designs, and Risk Factors

Genetics of Lumbar Disk Degeneration: Technology, Study Designs, and Risk Factors

The etiology of intervertebral disc degeneration

A review of current treatment for lumbar disc herniation in children and adolescents

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