Journal of Spine

Department of Medicine, St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

Publications

• Research Article   
  Novel Total Nucleus Replacement Using Spherical Magnetic Beads: A Biomechanical Study
  Author(s): Cristian Balcescu, Gurjiwan Dhaliwal, Roman Dimov, Nikole Chetty, Andrea Rowland, Oluwatodimu Raji*, Jeremi Leasure and Dimitriy Kondrashov
  
  Objective: Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease is a potential cause of spinal instability. Surgical techniques such as arthrodesis or arthroplasty are implemented to restore the stability to the spine. Both a fusion and a disc replacement are substantially invasive. A lumbar disk replacement is typically done via retroperitoneal or Trans peritoneal approach. With increasing number of symptomatic levels, the disk replacement becomes incrementally more invasive, with a potential for a significant blood loss, injury to great vessels, injury to abdominal viscera, weakening of abdominal wall, etc. There is no minimally invasive way to perform a disk replacement either at one or multiple levels. Our goal was to evaluate the feasibility of a novel and less invasive total nucleus replacement using magnetic spherical beads in a cadaver-based multidirectional b.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2165-7939.2021.10.479

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