Full-endoscopic spine-surgery in the elderly and patients with comorbidities

J Leyendecker, T Prasse, P Rückels, M Köster… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Due to demographic changes, a growing number of elderly patients with comorbidities will
require spine surgery in the next decades. However, age and multimorbidity have been …

High Modified 5 Factor Frailty Index is Associated With Worse PROMs and Decreased Return to Activities After 1 or 2 Level MI-TLIF

T Subramanian, P Shahi, T Hirase… - Global Spine …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Objective Frailty is defined as a state of minimal
“physiologic reserve.” The modified 5 factor frailty index (mFI-5) is a recently proposed metric …