Senior Director & HOD
Neuro Surgery & Neuro Spine
+91-11-30403040The Spine Fusion Surgery Unit at the BLK-Max Hospital provides quality medical care to patients suffering from chronic disorders related to spine vertebrae. We strive to provide the best in class treatment to every patient under our care with a personalised treatment plan.
Our experienced multidisciplinary team of surgeons ensures that each patient under our care has access to the best possible, consistent and safe treatment and post-surgery care under one roof. The centre upholds the most stringent standards in hygiene, safety and patient care.
Spinal fusion surgery is a minimally invasive surgical process that is performed to correct problems with vertebrae (the small bones in the spine). The surgery involves the fusion of two or more vertebrae into one single structure and aims to prevent back pain. Once the vertebrae are fused and movement between the two bones is stopped, the patient does not experience discomfort from stretching of nearby nerves, ligaments, and muscles. Spinal fusion can be done one of two ways.
The major indicators that reflect the need for spine fusion surgery are:
Some of the major conditions we treat include:
Spine fusion surgery is the most advanced surgical process that is performed when other treatment options for people suffering from severe spinal disorders fail. You are a candidate for minimally invasive spine fusion surgery if:
A patient must talk to a doctor or spine specialist about his/her pain and symptoms in detail along with the outcomes of different treatments tried by him/her. After evaluating all considerations, your doctor may advise you to undergo surgical treatment to treat the pain.
Some of the diagnostic tests that your doctor might ask you to take for evaluation of your current medical condition, which involves:
Preoperative Details
Before proceeding with the surgery, the doctors have to make sure that the patient is fit for the procedure. The patient has to undertake certain tests and screening process for the evaluation purpose. The doctor may prescribe certain medications to the patient, a week or two before the surgery, to avoid any sort of infection during or after the surgery.
A patient will receive general anaesthesia before moving to the operation theatre and will sleep through the surgical procedure.
Operative Details
If the patient is the donor himself/herself, then the doctor collects it surgically by making an incision above the pelvic bone, removes a small portion of it and then closes the incision. The other option to get the bone graft is from the bone bank or another donor.
Postoperative Details
After the operation, the patient has to get admitted in the recovery room for monitoring purposes, from where the doctor transfers him/her to the ICU. The patient has to stay in an ICU for a day or two after and is then asked to shift to a normal ward, where he/she has to stay until he/she gets fit for discharge.
The important precautionary measures one must consider after the treatment are:
The minimally invasive spine fusion surgery includes the following advantages:
Some of the risk factors associated with minimally invasive Spine Fusion Surgery include:
These risk factors are very mild and usually reversible with the help of some medication.
Other potential risk factors include:
A patient can help prevent these risk factors by watching for the warning signs, such as
However, if the patient experiences these symptoms for a longer duration then he must see a doctor immediately.
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