2005 Loss of Coronal Correction Following Instrumentation Removal in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis AAOS

Description: Paper No: 291 Friday, February 25, 2005 11:06 AM - 11:12 AM Timothy R Kuklo, MD Rockville MD (a- Medtronic Sofamor Danek) Kevin L Kirk, DO Silver Spring MD (n) Suken A Shah, MD Wilmington DE (n) Moderator(s): Edward D Simmons, MD Buffalo NY Susan E Stephens, MD Cleveland OH Spine Twenty-one AIS patients were followed for an average of 5.2 years after instrumentation removal for either pain or infection. In this series, instrumentation removal was not found to be a benign process, as this cohort of patients shows a "settling" effect in the coronal plane of the MT and TL-L curves after instrumentation removal. Interestingly, there was no change in the sagittal plane with time. Parents and patients should be counseled for this when instrumentation removal is contemplated.