Minimal Invasive Surgery in Patients with Degenerative Lumbar Pathology. Initial Experience

Abstract

The transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) is used traditionally as treatment of the degenerative lumbar disease (DLD), obtaining good results. Nowadays, minimal invasive surgery (MIS) TLIF is being used as a treatment to this pathology, with the purpose of reducing damage in soft tissues, as well as, the operative time and patient recovery. The objective of this study is to measure the in-hospital and surgical parameters of a case series, which had lumbar degenerative pathology surgery using the MIS TLIF technique. Patients and MethodsData of seven patients were collected, who had surgery by the same surgeon at Hospital del Trabajador (Santiago de Chile) during 2013 under the MIS TLIF technique. The operative time, ambulation start, hospital stay, CT fusion, and complications were measured.