After understanding the patient's condition, imaging data and careful physical examination, Director Sun diagnosed the patient as 3/4 lumbar instability and lumbar spinal stenosis. It is suggested to perform decompression and fixation, and discuss whether OLIF can be performed according to the degree of lumbar spinal stenosis.
What is OLIF surgery?
Many patients may not be familiar with OLIF surgery, so let's take a look. The full name of OLIF operation is oblique lumbar interbody fusion. It is a minimally invasive surgery with less risk than traditional surgery, which can obviously reduce surgical trauma, shorten operation time, reduce intraoperative bleeding and shorten hospitalization time, and is more conducive to patients' rehabilitation. It is a technology with good development prospects.
What are the advantages of OLIF surgery?
Compared with traditional lumbar surgery requiring posterior surgery, OLIF surgery:
1, which does not destroy the posterior structure of lumbar spine and has little influence on the stability of spine;
2. The operation area is in front of the spinal canal and does not enter the spinal canal, which avoids the interference to the structure in the spinal canal, relieves the nerve compression through indirect decompression, reduces the interference to the nerves and spinal cord in the spinal canal, and is safe in operation;
3. A larger intervertebral fusion cage can be placed to effectively improve the height of intervertebral space and improve the fusion efficiency;
4. Postoperative complications such as incision pain and low back pain are less;
5. Minimal trauma, short operation time, less bleeding, quick recovery after operation, getting out of bed early, shortening hospitalization time and patients' rehabilitation time.
What kind of patients are suitable for OLIF surgery?
OLIF has a wide range of indications, mainly including: degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, discogenic low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar segmental instability, adjacent segmental degeneration after lumbar surgery, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, revision after lumbar surgery, intervertebral space infection, trauma, tumor and so on.