• To explore the incidence and risk factors for symptomatic adjacent segment disease (ASD) in patients enveloped in degenerative lumbar diseases after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Incidence of symptomatic adjacent segment disease is lower, however, ranging from 5.2 to 18.5% during 44.8 to 164 months of follow-up observation. (scienceopen.com)
  • OBJECTIVE: To describe the relationship between pelvic incidence-lumbar lordosis (PI-LL) mismatch and the development of symptomatic ALD requiring revision surgery following single-level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative lumbar spondylosis and/or low-grade spondylolisthesis. (neurosurgery-blog.com)
  • Cancer incidence data from the central cancer registries have been linked with the Indian Health Service patient database. (cdc.gov)
  • However, malignant SFTs, which comprise 10%-15% of SFTs, not only aggressively infiltrate adjacent structures but are also capable of metastatic spread. (medscape.com)
  • However, other publications have reported a very high incidence (50-95%) of new mammary tumors in dogs with a prior history of malignant tumors. (vin.com)
  • studies have found a high incidence of high grade pre-neoplastic lesions adjacent to malignant lesions. (vin.com)
  • An increased incidence of glioma in the brain and malignant schwannoma in the heart was found in the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) study on rats and mice. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Retroperitoneal liposarcoma is a rare malignant tumor with an incidence of 2.5/1,000,000 individuals ( 1 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Immunocompromised persons experience a higher incidence of herpes zoster and related complications. (cdc.gov)
  • With moderate to high vaccine efficacy and an acceptable safety profile, RZV has the potential to prevent considerable herpes zoster incidence and related complications. (cdc.gov)
  • The incidence of herpes zoster and related complications (including the most common complication of postherpetic neuralgia) increase with age ( 3 - 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Prophylactic vertebroplasty for adjacent vertebra has been reported to reduce the complications of junctional compression fractures but has raised a new problem of vertebral subluxation. (scienceopen.com)
  • This patient had various complications including adjacent segmental disease, vertebral subluxation, and junctional fractures on radiographs and magnetic resonance images. (scienceopen.com)
  • Adjacent segmental disease, junctional fracture, and vertebral subluxation are familiar complications following instrumented spinal fusion surgeries for osteoporotic spines. (scienceopen.com)
  • A lack of adequate experience and/or training may lead to a higher incidence of adverse events, including neurological complications. (medtronic.com)
  • In this study, no patients reported serious complications, no incidence of hematoma formation, or worsening postop pain. (medscape.com)
  • The incidence of ASD was about 4.7% in patients suffer from degenerative lumbar diseases after MIS-TLIF. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adjacent segment disease (ASD) is a potential long-term complication and is one of the common reasons for revision surgery after lumbar fusion [ 7 , 8 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ASD refers to degenerative changes in the unfused segment adjacent to the fusion segments after lumbar fusion, which may lead to the recurrence of symptoms. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Annual incidence of symptomatic adjacent level disease (ALD) following lumbar fusion surgery ranges from 0.6% to 3.9% per year. (neurosurgery-blog.com)
  • Adjacent segment disease after lumbar or lumbosacral fusion: review of the literature. (scienceopen.com)
  • The development of pathology at the mobile segment next to a lumbar or lumbosacral spinal fusion has been termed adjacent segment disease. (scienceopen.com)
  • As utilization of spinal fusion has increased over the past decade, so has the incidence of adjacent-segment degeneration following index lumbar fusion, which commonly requires revision laminectomy and extension of fusion. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • The MCID remains uninvestigated for any PROs in the setting of revision lumbar surgery for adjacent-segment disease (ASD). (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Incidence and trends of the leading cancers with elevated incidence among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, 2012-2016. (cdc.gov)
  • 2-4 One of these studies included only dogs with one mammary tumor and concluded that an ipsilateral mastectomy should be performed in such patients based on the high incidence of new tumors in the same chain. (vin.com)
  • Capsule and pseudocapsule are correlated with higher complete tumor excision rate and lower incidence of recurrence by restricting tumor growth and block its invasion. (dtrf.org)
  • We performed a retrospective review of seven cases of desmoid tumor adjacent to nerves and blood vessels. (dtrf.org)
  • Although the incidence rate is very low, early diagnosis is often difficult since symptoms appear only when the tumor becomes very large. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Although the tumor has not extended into the adjacent soft tissues, cortical erosion is evident. (medscape.com)
  • The logistic regression analysis results demonstrated that BMD ( p = 0.039, OR = 0.986, 95% CI 0.899-1.115), BMI ( p = 0.041, OR = 1.119, 95% CI 1.103-2.397), and preoperative adjacent intervertebral disc degeneration ( p = 0.023, OR = 1.215, 95% CI 1.015-1.986) may be seen as risk factors for ASD after MIS-TLIF. (biomedcentral.com)
  • BMD, BMI and preoperative adjacent intervertebral disc degeneration might be the risk factors for the occurrence of ASD after MIS-TLIF. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our research also suggested that patients with lower BMD, higher BMI and disc preoperative adjacent segment disc degeneration were more likely to develop ASD after MIS-TLIF. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The long-term functional outcomes (NDI, Visual Analog Scale (VAS) neck and arm pain scores, the Short Form 36 Health Survey physical component score (SF-36 PCS)), patient satisfaction and recommendation, and the incidence of superior adjacent segment degeneration also favored patients in CDA group with statistical difference. (nih.gov)
  • Regarding inferior adjacent segment degeneration, patients in CDA group had a lower rate without statistical significance. (nih.gov)
  • This meta-analysis showed that cervical disc arthroplasty was superior over anterior discectomy and fusion for the treatment of symptomatic cervical disc disease in terms of overall success, NDI success, neurological success, implant/surgery-related serious adverse events, secondary procedure, functional outcomes, patient satisfaction and recommendation, and superior adjacent segment degeneration. (nih.gov)
  • The most common abnormal finding at the adjacent segment is disc degeneration. (scienceopen.com)
  • Biomechanical changes consisting of increased intradiscal pressure, increased facet loading, and increased mobility occur after fusion and have been implicated in causing adjacent segment disease. (scienceopen.com)
  • Adjacent-segment disease revision surgery-specific MCID is highly variable based on calculation technique. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • TDR may avoid report of stresses on adjacent discs and thus potentially reduce the incidence of adjacent segment disease. (medscape.com)
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is the clinical syndrome resulting from ascending infection from the lower genital tract to involve the endometrium, Fallopian tubes and/or adjacent pelvic structures. (bmj.com)
  • The estimated incidence of AVM in the US general population is 0.14% (140 cases per 100,000 persons or 1 case per 700 persons). (medscape.com)
  • According to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) figures on the 14 day incidence of confirmed cases of Covid-19, the Cork South Central Ward has the highest incidence of coronavirus in the city between September 22nd and October 5th with 240.5 per 100,000. (irishtimes.com)
  • This compares with the adjacent Cork South West Ward, which includes Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), and has a 14 day incidence rate of 191.3 per 100,000, while Cork North East Ward has an incidence rate of 173.1 per 100,000. (irishtimes.com)
  • The Cork North West Ward is next highest with an incidence rate of 126.9 cases per 100,000 while the South East Ward has the lowest in the city with an incidence rate of 93.5 cases per 100,000 people. (irishtimes.com)
  • The overall incidence of reported LD was 5.2 per 100,000 population. (cdc.gov)
  • 6] The age-adjusted incidence rate for soft-tissue sarcoma was 3.1 per 100,000 population per year in the 2000-2004 period. (medscape.com)
  • Low-grade tumors may recur and infiltrate adjacent structures. (medscape.com)
  • From the upper airways, pathogens may invade adjacent structures, such as the lungs, middle ear, or nasal sinuses, and may penetrate into the bloodstream, causing invasive diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Endophthalmitis refers to the inflammation of the ocular cavities and their immediate adjacent structures without extension beyond the sclera, usually secondary to infection. (annals.edu.sg)
  • Herpes zoster is a painful, cutaneous eruption, usually involving one to three adjacent dermatomes, § resulting from reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT This study of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jericho city and the adjacent Aqbat-Jaber refugee camp investigated the seroprevalance of Leishmania major and the risk factors associated with acquiring the disease. (who.int)
  • A case- control study of 247 individual in 37 households showed that a higher level of education of the head of the household and having children sleep under bed nets were significantly related to a lower incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis. (who.int)
  • This trend has substantial public health consequences because the incidence of infectious diseases in general, and of those caused by respiratory pathogens in particular, has substantially increased among daycare center attendees. (cdc.gov)
  • While data on the burden and pattern of cancer in the Region are insufficient, the available studies and estimates show an increased incidence due to infectious agents and to growing tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and pollution. (who.int)
  • The main factors contributing to the increasing incidence of cancer in the African Region are growing tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, environmental pollution and action of infectious agents. (who.int)
  • The objectives of this study were to identify sexual, social, and demographic risk factors for the acquisition of PID diagnosed presumptively in women attending a sexual health service and on the basis of these findings to formulate health promotion recommendations to reduce the incidence and consequences of PID. (bmj.com)
  • Lutzomyia neivai spatial distributions were consistent with ACL incidence patterns during the study and in the recent outbreaks in Argentina. (conicet.gov.ar)
  • Methods PTPRK transcripts were determined in pancreatic cancers (n=201) and adjacent non-tumour pancreatic tissues (n=201) using real time PCR. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Cancer refers to a group of diseases characterized by abnormal cell proliferation with a tendency to invade adjacent tissues and produce metastases. (who.int)
  • The proximity of states leads to a high incidence of transboundary issues regarding living marine resources. (researchgate.net)
  • The high proportion of small island developing states (SIDS), defined at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development as countries facing specific social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities, and high incidence of coastal use for industry, tourism, fisheries, and urban development leads to heavy impacts on coastal and marine resources. (researchgate.net)
  • Prior to the Pyure installation, employees were reporting a high incidence of stress, illness, and absenteeism. (cleanlink.com)
  • 2 The severity of the sequelae in conjunction with the relatively high incidence of PID in some communities invoke costly consequences at the level of personal and public health. (bmj.com)
  • There was some moderately consistent evidence to suggest that the incidence of dementia may be declining in high-income countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A decline in age-specific incidence of dementia, at least in high-income countries, is theoretically possible, driven by changes in exposure to suspected developmental, lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factors for dementia [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 1-3 The last study conducted on the incidence of bacterial endogenous endophthalmitis (BEE) in Singapore was published in 2000 by Wong et al. (annals.edu.sg)
  • We also collected the blood culture results positive for Klebsiella pneumoniae over the study period to review the incidence of EE among patients with Klebsiella bacteraemia. (annals.edu.sg)
  • Objective: The purpose of the present study is to describe an approach for adjacent gingival recession treatment using a combination of two surgical techniques: the subepithelial connective tissue graft (SCTG) with a laterally positioned double flap. (bvsalud.org)
  • We undertook this study to investigate whether state-level variations in renal recovery among incident ESRD patients correlated with state-level variations in incidence of acute kidney injury requiring dialysis (AKI-D). METHODS: We conducted a national cross-sectional ecological study at the state-level using data from State Inpatient Databases and U.S. Renal Data System. (cdc.gov)
  • These counties contain federally recognized tribal lands or are adjacent to tribal lands. (cdc.gov)
  • The risk for exposure may be highly focal (2) and can differ substantially between adjacent states, counties, communities, and areas on the same residential property (3,4). (cdc.gov)
  • Results Both the public dataset GSE15471 and the Beijing clinical cohort shows increased PTPRK expression in the tumours compared with adjacent normal tissue. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Lymphomas tend to infiltrate the brain diffusely, often as multicentric masses adjacent to the ventricles, but may occur as solitary brain masses. (msdmanuals.com)
  • As the angle of incidence increases beyond the critical angle, the conditions of refraction can no longer be satisfied, so there is no refracted ray, and the partial reflection becomes total. (wikipedia.org)
  • for example, reductions in incidence might be accompanied by increases in duration of survival with dementia, or vice versa, the one effect tending to cancel out the other in terms of their overall impact on prevalence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ORRHES) requested that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Tennessee Cancer Registry (TCR) of the Tennessee Department of Health assess the incidence of cancer in this area. (cdc.gov)
  • ARS scientist, in collaboration with a team of researchers from the University of Florida, conducted surveys of tomato fields in Homestead, FL in the 2015 to 2018 tomato growing seasons to determine the incidence of the disease, distribution pattern under field settings, and weed plants as an alternative reservoir host for TCSV. (usda.gov)
  • however, adjacent segmental disease is a known complication. (scienceopen.com)
  • The prevalence of any condition (the proportion of the population affected at a point in time) is a product of its incidence and the average duration of the disease episode. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Cancer incidence refers to newly diagnosed cases of cancer that are reported to the TCR. (cdc.gov)
  • The TCR has maintained data on cancer incidence (new cases of cancer) for the State of Tennessee since 1986. (cdc.gov)
  • The procedure for analyzing and interpreting cancer incidence data is to compare the number of cancer cases in the population living in the area of concern with a reference population to determine whether an excess of a particular type of cancer exists. (cdc.gov)
  • The large share of North America can primarily be attributed to the growing number of COVID-19 cases, rising prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among caregivers, growing geriatric population, and the increasing incidence of chronic and lifestyle diseases. (prsync.com)
  • When waves are refracted from a medium of lower propagation speed (higher refractive index ) to a medium of higher propagation speed (lower refractive index )-e.g., from water to air-the angle of refraction (between the outgoing ray and the surface normal ) is greater than the angle of incidence (between the incoming ray and the normal). (wikipedia.org)
  • As the angle of incidence approaches a certain threshold, called the critical angle , the angle of refraction approaches 90°, at which the refracted ray becomes parallel to the boundary surface. (wikipedia.org)
  • For visible light , the critical angle is about 49° for incidence from water to air, and about 42° for incidence from common glass to air. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike partial reflection between transparent media, total internal reflection is accompanied by a non-trivial phase shift (not just zero or 180°) for each component of polarization (perpendicular or parallel to the plane of incidence ), and the shifts vary with the angle of incidence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Where the ray meets the flat glass-to-air interface, the angle between the ray and the normal (perpendicular) to the interface is called the angle of incidence . (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] If this angle is sufficiently small, the ray is partly reflected but mostly transmitted, and the transmitted portion is refracted away from the normal, so that the angle of refraction (between the refracted ray and the normal to the interface) is greater than the angle of incidence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conversely, this technique must not be used in the presence of interproximal periodontal pockets, shallow vestibules, multiple recessions, and in areas exhibiting insufficient adjacent soft tissue, excessive root prominence, or deep cervical abrasions 9 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Although most patients experience symptomatic relief and improved quality of life after MIS-TLIF which provides adequate nerve decompression and stabilization through intersomatic fusion, but the biomechanical changes in the spine caused by fusion may accelerate the degenerative change of the adjacent unfused segments. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The patients were divided into the ASD group and non-ASD (N-ASD) group on the basis of developing ASD at follow-up, and then the incidence of ASD was calculated. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Replacement resorption is a process of physiological remodeling of bone and erroneously the adjacent root cementum and/or dentin, which results in replacement of the root with bone tissue. (oatext.com)
  • Time series analyses of species densities suggested a bimodal or trimodal annual pattern related to rainfall peaks, a 5-wk reproductive cycle, and peridomestic local populations that were located adjacent to secondary forests. (conicet.gov.ar)
  • The authors recommend the modification of the semiautomatic system to allow all molds to be isolated once they are poured, and substitute of olivine sand for silica to reduce the incidence of silicosis. (cdc.gov)
  • This assessment used cancer incidence data supplied by the TCR for the years 1991-2000. (cdc.gov)
  • However, there has been little new Singapore data evaluating the incidence and profiles of BEE, especially that of Klebsiella endogenous endophthal-mitis in recent years. (annals.edu.sg)
  • It was unilocular with defined limits, may lead to delayed eruption, mobility, and mostly corticalized, and adjacent to a radiolucent tooth displacement5. (bvsalud.org)
  • the incidence was highest in Nantucket County, Massachusetts (1197.6). (cdc.gov)
  • Up to 56.0% of the tomato plants with symptoms were observed in this field adjacent to ornamental nurseries, whereas the incidence gradually decreased to zero in the other side of the same field. (usda.gov)
  • We found that the March 16 subway-visit volume in subway-contiguous ZCTAs had an increasing effect on COVID-19 incidence during April 1-8 as we enlarged the radius of influence up to 5 connected subway stops. (frontiersin.org)
  • By contrast, the March 31 cumulative incidence of COVID-19 in geographically-contiguous ZCTAs had an increasing effect on subsequent COVID-19 incidence as we expanded the radius up to three connected ZCTAs. (frontiersin.org)
  • In one area of Connecticut where approximately 15% of I. scapularis are infected with B. burgdorferi, changes in the annual incidence of LD have paralleled changes in I. scapularis densities (M. Cartter, Connecticut Department of Health and Addiction Services, K. Stafford, Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station, personal communication, 1995). (cdc.gov)