CORR Insights®: Elderly Patients Undergoing Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion May Have Similar Clinical Outcomes Perioperative Complications and Fusion Rates As Their Younger Counterparts

摘要

According to 2018 US census data—which reflect our most-recent estimates—the US population has gotten older and increased by more than 6% since April 2010 [9]. Reflecting this trend, clinicians are seeing older patients who, like their younger counterparts, want results that will allow them to go back to their active lifestyles.