Table 4.

Peri/postoperative complications following total lumbar disc replacement (TDR) in n = 39 patients

	n	%	Comment
Intraoperative complications
Access related
Lesion of superior hypogastric plexus	1	2.6	Persisting sexual dysfunction with retrograde ejaculation
Postoperative complications
Surgery related
L5-radiculopathy due to extraforaminal disc protrusion following TDR	1	2.6	Spontaneous improvement in both patients upon conservative therapy including nerve root infiltrations
L5-radiculopathy of unknown reason	1	2.6
Intra/postoperative complications (total)	3	7.7
Reoperations
Haematoma of the abdominal wall	1	2.6	Revision surgery
Reoperations (non-index level)
Adjacent segment disc herniation	1	2.6	Microsurgical discectomy
Total revision surgery	2	5.1
Overall complication rate	5	12.8