Surgical advances in the treatment of neuromuscular scoliosis

Table 5 Decade 2000-2011

Decade-Year of publication	Authors	Patients(n)	Neuromuscular condition	Instrumentation	Complications (number of patients)	Outcome/Complications
2000-2011
2000	Yazici et al[25]	47	Various	ISOLA-Galveston	2 deep wound infections;	ISOLA-Galveston instrumentation is as safe and effective as other types of instrumentation
					2 hardware removals;
					4 cases of pseudarthrosis;
					1 pseudarthrosis repair
					Complications rate: 19%
2009	Modi et al[20]	52	Cerebral palsy	U-rod and pedicle screws	2 deaths;	U-rod with pedicle screws provides good frontal and sagittal plane correction, as well as pelvic obliquity improvement (56% correction)
					1 neurologic deficit;
					17 respiratory complications (atelectasia, pneumonia, hemothorax)
					Complications rate: 38%
2010	Nectoux et al[21]	28	Cerebral palsy	Luque-Galveston, U-rod	1 case of blindness;
					1 death;
					16 respiratory complications (atelectasia, pneumonia, pneumothorax)
					Complications rate: 64%
2010	Modi et al[22]	27	Spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy	U-rod and pedicle screws	1 death;	Although flaccid neuromuscular scoliosis can be corrected well with U-rod and posterior-only pedicle screws, there is a high rate of associated complications
					4 respiratory failure;
					2 neurological deficits;
					1 ileus;
					2 cases of atelectasia;
					3 UTIs;
					7 cases of coccydynia;
					1 rod dislodgement
					Complications rate: 77%
2011	La Rosa et al[24]	84	Cerebral palsy	Universal clamps, hooks and L-rod	5 respiratory complications
					Complications rate: 6%

Most significant works published between 2000 and 2011.