Spacers for Spinal Stenosis Have Lowest Complication Rate… The researchers compared the outcomes of three alternatives for surgical treatment of spinal stenosis in the lower (lumbar) spine.

Spinal stenosis occurs when compression in the spine causes pain, numbness, and weakness, usually in the legs. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, and treatments here.

Researchers analyzed outcomes in nearly 49,000 patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Rates of complications and in-hospital death were compared for surgeons and hospitals with ...

Investigators used Medicare claims data to look at rates and complications of these procedures from 2002 to 2007, during which the overall rate of lumbar stenosis surgery was stable. However, the ...

The researchers analyzed data on more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery for spinal stenosis in the lower (lumbar) spine at Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers between 1998 and 2009.

M.D.N. Spinal stenosis is when the harder structures of the spine (bones, ligaments) compress the spinal cord or nerve roots. This causes pain and may eventually cause weakness.

The symptoms of spinal stenosis are numbness, pain and weakness. The numbness is because the information from the nerves (for example, the nerves that go to the feet) is unable to reach the brain.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was superior to surgical aortic valve replacement for reducing death, stroke or rehospitalization in women with severe aortic stenosis, according to ...