David Gonçalves Nordon, Felipe Cruz Caetano Dos Reis, Carlos Alberto Dos Santos, Adilson DE Paula, Maria Bernadete Dutra DE Resende, Patricia Moreno Grangeiro
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Abstract
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of surgical procedures on maintaining ambulation for Duchenne patients.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study evaluated 35 patients for whom surgery was recommended at our institution from 2012 to 2020.
Results: Twenty-seven patients were operated on before gait loss, and eight after. In this study, surgical treatment allowed recovery and prolongation of gait for 38.6 months, on average. The sooner the surgery was performed, the better the results were; logistic regression analysis showed that each day of delay after gait loss decreased the chances of success by 0.2%. The optimal interval for intervention was up to 12 months after gait loss.
Conclusion: Our results thus corroborate the evidence that surgical interventions are beneficial for these patients and suggest a not previously described time window for achieving better outcomes. Level of Evidence lll; Retrospective, Comparative Study of Surgical Interventions.
期刊介绍:
A Revista Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, órgão oficial do Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (DOT/FMUSP), é publicada bimestralmente em seis edições ao ano (jan/fev, mar/abr, maio/jun, jul/ago, set/out e nov/dez) com versão em inglês disponível nos principais indexadores nacionais e internacionais e instituições de ensino do Brasil. Sendo hoje reconhecidamente uma importante contribuição para os especialistas da área com sua seriedade e árduo trabalho para as indexações já conquistadas.