PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | muscular dystrophy |
| Symptom | C0036439|scoliosis |
| Sentences | 10 |
| PubMedID- 23560735 | Non-surgical prevention and management of scoliosis for children with duchenne muscular dystrophy: what is the evidence. |
| PubMedID- 20358328 | Background: instrumentation and fusion to the sacrum/pelvis has been a mainstay in the surgical treatment of scoliosis in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy since the development of the intrailiac post. |
| PubMedID- 23450561 | Background: scoliosis in people with duchenne muscular dystrophy is usually progressive and treated with surgery. |
| PubMedID- 23752144 | Methods: vital capacity (vc), peak cough flow, and the extent of ventilator dependence were documented before and after surgical correction of scoliosis for children with duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) and spinal muscular atrophy (sma) with vcs as low as 2%. |
| PubMedID- 23783200 | Glucocorticoid treatment for the prevention of scoliosis in children with duchenne muscular dystrophy: long-term follow-up. |
| PubMedID- 26423318 | Background: scoliosis in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) is usually progressive and is treated with surgery. |
| PubMedID- 24986949 | We report the incidence of and risk factors for complications after scoliosis surgery in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) and compare them with those of other neuromuscular conditions. |
| PubMedID- 19533124 | Autogenous iliac crest bone graft versus banked allograft bone in scoliosis surgery in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy. |
| PubMedID- 25802654 | Various other retrospective studies using freezedried allograft have also been performed more recently, with reported pseudarthrosis rates ranging from 1.1% to 7.3% and loss of correction ranging from 3.4% to 10%.54–57 a recent prospective study was performed by nakazawa et al58 with 36 patients undergoing correction for scoliosis due to duchenne muscular dystrophy. |
| PubMedID- 24599203 | Conclusions: surgery in patients who had duchenne muscular dystrophy with scoliosis improved function and decreased the rate of deterioration of forced vital capacity compared with patients treated conservatively. |
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