Pulmonary function in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis

✍ Scribed by K. Šakié; M. Pećina; F. Pavčić

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 582 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0341-2695
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00182695

✦ Synopsis

Two groups of patients, with an average age of 15 years, have been studied to establish the improvement in pulmonary function after surgical correction in relation to the amount of correction achieved. The first group of 33 patients were treated surgically; an average Cobb angle of 72 ° was reduced to 32.6 °. The second group of 30 patients with an average Cobb angle of 33 ° were not operated on. Results of tests undertaken have shown that pulmonary function was improved by surgical correction, but the improvement does not match the degree of correction achieved. Statistical analysis of the two groups shows a difference in cardiopulmonary function to the advantage of those who were not operated on. This suggests that there is partial irreversibility of ventilation and perfusion in those who are treated surgically.

R~sum~. Le but de ce travail est d'dvaluer l'amdlioration de la fonction respiratoire aprds correction chirurgicale des courbures

scoliotiques. L~tude a porM sur deux groupes distincts de patients, ~g~s de 15 ans en moyenne. Le premier groupe comportait 33 sujets opdrds d'une scoliose de 72 ° (Cobb), r6duite aprds l'intervention & 32.6 °. Le deuxikme groupe comprenait 30 sujets du m~me gtge avec une scoliose non opdrde de 33 °. Les parambtres fonctionnels cardio-respiratoires, statiques et dynamiques, ont dt~ mesurds -avant et 24 mois aprds l'op~ration -par spiromdtrie et pldthysmographie, par analyse des gaz du sang et par le test de toldrance gt l'effort. Les rdsultats ont montr~ que la correction de la scoliose