Safety and Reoperation Rates in Non-instrumented Lumbar Fusion Surgery: Secondary Report From a Randomized Controlled Trial of ABM/P-15 vs Allograft With Minimum 5 years Follow-Up

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  • Andreas K. Andresen
  • Leah Y. Carreon
  • Overgaard, Søren
  • Michael K. Jacobsen
  • Mikkel Andersen

Study Design: Randomized controlled trial with minimum of 5-years follow-up. Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the peri- and postoperative complications rates, ectopic bone migration, and reoperation rates, and secondly evaluate the 5-year patient reported outcomes (PROs), in patients treated with decompression and non-instrumented posterolateral fusion with ABM/P-15 or allograft. Methods: Patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis were enrolled in a Randomized Clinical Trial and randomized 1:1 to either ABM/P-15 or allograft bone. Patient Reported Outcomes were collected at 5-year follow-up, and patients were invited to a clinical follow-up including a computed tomography scan (CT) to evaluate signs of osteolysis, ectopic bone formation, and bone migration. Results: Of 101 subjects enrolled in the primary study, 83 patients were available for the 5-year follow-up. We found a statistically significant difference in back pain and Oswestry Disability Index between groups. Fifty-eight patients agreed to participate in the CT study. Sixty percentage in the ABM/P-15 group vs 30% in the allograft group was classified as fused (P =.037). There were no differences in complications, reoperation-, or infection rates between the 2 groups. We found 2 patients with migration of graft material. Both patients were asymptomatic at minimum 5-year follow-up. Conclusion: Our study indicated that complication rates are no higher in patients treated with ABM/P-15 than allograft. We found significantly higher fusion rates in the AMB/P-15 group than in the allograft group, and patients in the ABM/P-15 group reported less back pain and lower disability score at 5-year follow-up.

Original languageEnglish
JournalGlobal Spine Journal
Volume14
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)33-40
Number of pages8
ISSN2192-5682
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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  • bone graft, decompression, degenerative, fusion, lumbar, spondyliosthesis

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