Preserving spinal motion: lumbar disc arthroplasty in the US.

Curr Orthop Pract · 2026 · PMC12911488 · PMID 41710122

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When compared to the matched fusion group, the likelihood of adjacent level surgery was lower in the LDA group, but this did not achieve significance (OR 0.76; 95% CI 0.42-1.36). 29 Artificial Disc Unspecified In a retrospective radiographic review to evaluate ASD, 1000 LDA cases and 67 fusions were compared.

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