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ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the effect of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) on the consolidation of instrumented lumbar posterolateral arthrodeses in patients who have been surgically treated for degenerative spine disease. Methods: Forty cases were recruited from 163 consecutive patients undergoing lumbar arthrodesis at the same center. The patients were randomized into two groups of 20 patients: Active Group, who were exposed to PEMF for 4 hours a day for 90 days after surgery, and Inactive Group, who received an identical device, with the same instructions for use but without the ability to generate PEMF. The patients underwent computed tomography scans at 45, 90, 180 and 360 days after surgery to check for the occurrence of arthrodesis at each operated spinal level. Results: In the course of the study, two patients were excluded from each group. There were no significant differences between the groups with respect to age, gender, smoking habit, or the number of vertebral levels included in the arthrodesis. The percentage of consolidation of the vertebral levels increased at 90, 180 and 360 days compared to 45 days (p

ABSTRACT Objective To compare the sagittal alignment (SA) parameters in individuals with LCS and surgical indication with a control group and to study the correlations between SA parameters and ODI, VAS and EQ-5D in individuals with LCS and surgical indication. Methods In this multicenter cross-sectional case-control study, the individuals were allocated as follows. A stenosis group (SG) composed by patients with LCS confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging with surgical indication, treated between July 2010 and August 2016 and a control group (CG), without LCS. All subjects underwent anamnesis, completed the Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and total spine radiographs were taken. Clinical data, HRQoL and radiographic parameters were correlated. Results Sixty-four individuals formed the SG and 14 the CG. The SG had higher values of mean age, coronal imbalance, sagittal vertical axis (SVA), pelvic tilt (PT), sacrofemoral distance (SFD), overhang (OH), PI-LL mismatch, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for pain and smaller thoracic kyphosis (TK), total (TLPL) and regional lumbopelvic lordosis (RLPL) in all vertebrae, sagittal offset (SO) in all evaluated vertebrae and EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) with p