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The correlation between obesity and incidence of complications in spine surgery is unclear, with some reports suggesting linear relationships between body mass index (BMI) and complication incidence and others noting no relationship.The purpose of this article was to assess the relationship between obesity and occurrence of perioperative complications in an elective thoracolumbar surgery cohort.Prospective...
Recurrent herniation of the nucleus pulposus (HNP) frequently causes poor outcomes after lumbar discectomy. The relationship between obesity and recurrent HNP has not previously been reported.The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of obesity with recurrent HNP after lumbar microdiscectomy.Retrospective Cohort.We reviewed all cases of one- or two-level lumbar microdiscectomy from...
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