How Is Pulmonary Function and Exercise Tolerance Affected in Patients With AIS Who Have Undergone Spinal Fusion?

• Published in: Spine deformity Vol. 5; no. 6; pp. 416 - 423
• Main Authors: Jeans, Kelly A., Lovejoy, John F., Karol, Lori A., McClung, Anna M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Elsevier Inc 01.11.2017; Springer International Publishing
• Subjects: Activity; Adolescent; Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Case Series; Child; Exercise capacity; Exercise Test; Exercise Tolerance - physiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Lung - physiopathology; Male; Medicine & Public Health; Orthopedics; Oxygen Consumption; Postoperative Period; Prospective Studies; Pulmonary function test; Respiratory Function Tests; Scoliosis - physiopathology; Scoliosis - surgery; Spinal Fusion - methods; Spinal Fusion - statistics & numerical data; Treatment Outcome; Activity; Pulmonary function test; Exercise capacity; Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Prospectively enrolled AIS patients who underwent spinal fusion, with 2 year follow-up. To evaluate the cardiovascular fitness and activity level in patients with AIS pre– and post–spinal fusion and to determine if initial curve magnitude or pulmonary function is predictive of exercise capacity. Res...