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Bridges T, Meade M, Brush P, Lee Y, Narayanan R, McCurdy MA, Lambrechts M, Charlton A, Jenkins E, Juniewicz R, Destine H, Kaye ID, Kurd M, Canseco J, Hilibrand A, Vaccaro AR, Schroeder G, Kepler C. Early Diet Liberalization After Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Improves Postoperative Recovery. Global Spine J 2023:21925682231223461. [PMID: 38149647 DOI: 10.1177/21925682231223461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2023] Open
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STUDY DESIGN Retrospective Cohort Study. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the impact of diet liberalization on short-term outcomes in patients undergoing anterior interbody lumbar fusion (ALIF). METHODS A retrospective review was performed for patients undergoing ALIF at our tertiary care center institution from 2010 to 2022. Electronic medical records were reviewed for demographics, surgical characteristics, and 90-day postoperative outcomes. RESULTS We included 515 patients in this study with 102 patients receiving a full diet on the same day as their operation. All other patients had a delay of at least 1 day (average 1.6 days) until a full diet was provided. This group was found to have a higher rate of postoperative ileus (10.2% vs 2.9%) and urinary retention (16.0% vs 3.9%). The readmission rate and percent of patients presenting to the emergency department within 90 days postoperatively were similar. On multivariate regression analysis, same-day, full-diet patients had decreased odds of developing urinary retention (OR = .17) and a shorter length of hospital stay (Estimate: -.99). Immediate full diet had no impact on the development of ileus (OR: .33). CONCLUSIONS An immediate postoperative full diet following an anterior approach to the lumbar spine was not found to be associated with an increased risk of postoperative ileus in patients deemed appropriate for early diet liberalization. Moreover, an early full diet was found to reduce length of hospitalization and risk of postoperative urinary retention. Reconsideration of postoperative diet protocols may help optimize patient outcomes and recovery.
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- Tiffany Bridges
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jefferson Health in New Jersey, Stratford, NJ, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jefferson Health in New Jersey, Stratford, NJ, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopaedic Instituteat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Isaacs EB. Neuroimaging, a new tool for investigating the effects of early diet on cognitive and brain development. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:445. [PMID: 23964224 PMCID: PMC3734354 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Nutrition is crucial to the initial development of the central nervous system (CNS), and then to its maintenance, because both depend on dietary intake to supply the elements required to develop and fuel the system. Diet in early life is often seen in the context of “programming” where a stimulus occurring during a vulnerable period can have long-lasting or even lifetime effects on some aspect of the organism's structure or function. Nutrition was first shown to be a programming stimulus for growth, and then for cognitive behavior, in animal studies that were able to employ methods that allowed the demonstration of neural effects of early nutrition. Such research raised the question of whether nutrition could also programme cognition/brain structure in humans. Initial studies of cognitive effects were observational, usually conducted in developing countries where the presence of confounding factors made it difficult to interpret the role of nutrition in the cognitive deficits that were seen. Attributing causality to nutrition required randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and these, often in developed countries, started to appear around 30 years ago. Most demonstrated convincingly that early nutrition could affect subsequent cognition. Until the advent of neuroimaging techniques that allowed in vivo examination of the brain, however, we could determine very little about the neural effects of early diet in humans. The combination of well-designed trials with neuroimaging tools means that we are now able to pose and answer questions that would have seemed impossible only recently. This review discusses various neuroimaging methods that are suitable for use in nutrition studies, while pointing out some of the limitations that they may have. The existing literature is small, but examples of studies that have used these methods are presented. Finally, some considerations that have arisen from previous studies, as well as suggestions for future research, are discussed.
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- Elizabeth B Isaacs
- Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health London, UK
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