Minimally Invasive Versus Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

Assiut University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Spinal Fusion

Treatments

Procedure: Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion either open or minimally invasive

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03692845

6272829

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study that compares between Open TLIF and Minimally invasive TLIF regarding patients' functional status(Oswestry Disability index)as a primary outcome measure.

Full description

The first randomized controlled trial comparing minimally invasive TLIF and open TLIF.

Enrollment

60 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adults more than 18 years of age and less than 65 years of age..
Degenerative or isthmic spondylolithesis Grade 1,2 and 3.
Recurrent Symptomatic recurrent lumbar disc prolapsed with or without evident neural compression.
Single level pathology involving L2-3, L3-4, L4-5 and or L5-S1.
Symptoms not responding to conservative treatment for at least 3 months.

Exclusion criteria

Previous spinal fusion or instrumentation.
Spinal tumours, infection and fractures.
Patients with severe osteoporosis
BMI more than 35.
Non-ambulant patients and patients with severe preoperative neurological affection (Cauda Equina Syndrome)
Patients not willing to participate in the study