This surgery has a high success rate. Between 93 to 100 percent of people who’ve had ACDF surgery for arm pain reported relief from pain, and 73 to 83 percent of people who had ACDF surgery for ...

Anterior cervical discectomy surgery (ACDF) is a procedure to reduce neck and back pain caused by disc problems. It involves removing an eroded or herniated disc from the neck and fusing the ...

As many as 1 in 5 people have complications from ACDF surgery, but severe side effects are rare. Most people fully recover within 6–8 weeks, but some may need another surgery. Anterior cervical ...

Study: No differences seen in ACDF safety or effectiveness based on surgical setting Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion done at ambulatory surgery centers rather than inpatient yielded cost ...

Chihtong "Lily" Lee never set out to reinvent surgical tools, but her curiosity, precision and creativity led her to do just ...

Lee’s work, conducted in collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine, aims to identify how retractor blade geometry contributes to tissue strain during ACDF.

1. Average costs for ACDF procedures in outpatient settings was $33,362 while in inpatient settings patients’ bills reached $74,667. 2. In the outpatient group, 168 (5.4 percent) went to the emergency ...

With the opioid epidemic front of mind for ambulatory surgery center leaders, a study in the International Journal of Spine Surgery researched if hospital surgery centers or ASCs prescribed more ...

Present Study. In this retrospective study, the authors reviewed the cases of 127 patients who had undergone single-level ACDF and participated in at least 1 year of follow-up.

Triple fusion neck surgery — or three-level cervical fusion — is a serious procedure that ... the reoperation rate for three-level ACDF was 15% within 5 years of surgery. How serious is neck ...

ProDisc-C Device Doesn’t Change Facet Joint Pressures Professional athletes may return to full contact sports following a single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). (HealthDay ...