Jan 2 2007 Hey Clinic Surgery: 65 yo woman with severe back and leg pain, trouble walking with degenerative scoliosis, spondyolisthesis and stenosis

This woman had severe progressive difficulties standing and walking with a collapsing lumbar scoliosis and stenosis.
She did very well with her surgery yesterday, with almost immediate relief of her severe sciatica in L leg postoperatively.
Her surgery took a little over 3 hours, with 3 level laminectomy, and T12-Iliac Wing instrumentation and fusion.
She did not require blood transfusion, and was able to spend first night on our spine/ortho unit at Duke Raleigh Hospital with her husband in a bed next to her in a large private room.
She was up walking around today, doing very well.
She will likely go home to Pinehurst on Saturday morning.


Lloyd A. Hey, MD MS
Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery
http://www.heyclinic.com