Quality of life assessment in patients undergoing nucleoplasty-based percutaneous discectomy

Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine
Peter C GersztenJoseph T King

Abstract

Nucleoplasty is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for disc decompression developed to treat patients with symptomatic contained herniated discs. Nucleoplasty uses nonheat-driven radiofrequency energy to ablate and coagulate the disc nucleus via a percutaneous "discography" trajectory under fluoroscopic guidance. In this study the authors evaluated pain, functioning, and quality of life (QOL) in patients with radicular leg and back pain who underwent nucleoplasty-based percutaneous disc decompression. The study was designed as a prospective nonrandomized longitudinal cohort study in an academic medical center. Sixty-seven patients (mean age 41 years) with primarily radicular pain due to a contained disc herniation underwent nucleoplasty-based decompression in an outpatient setting. Patients completed the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form (SF-36) Health Survey, EuroQol 5D (EQ5D), and a visual analog scale (VAS) for pain preoperatively, and at 3 and 6 months after surgery. Postoperative QOL differences were assessed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. A surgical probe, the Perc-DLE SpineWand, was placed percutaneously into the disc after application of a local anesthetic or induction of general anesthesia to remove ...Continue Reading

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