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. 2007 Oct 31;17(1):44–56. doi: 10.1007/s00586-007-0519-3

Table 2.

Overall results

Cohort of patients who did not require fluoroscopically guided spine infiltrations Cohort of all patients with fluoroscopically guided spine infiltrations following TDR Cohort of patients with confirmed facet joint pain (at all levels) Cohort of patients with confirmed facet joint pain at the level L5/S1 Cohort of patients with confirmed iliosacral joint pain Entire study cohort (all patients)
Number of patients n = 117 n = 58 n = 22 n = 17 n = 21 n = 175
Sex
 Male (%) 38.5 37.9 27.3 23.5 28.6 38.3
 Female (%) 61.5 62.1 72.7 76.5 71.4 61.7
 Agemean (years) 43.5 44.2 43.3 42.8 44.8 43.7
 Range (21.9–70.9) (28.9–65.8) (28.9–63.7) (28.9–63.7) (29.4–60.4) (21.9–70.9)
 FUmean (months) 30.5 26.8 26.9 30.6 28.1 29.3
 Range (12.2–67.3) (12.2–74.9) (12.6–60.3) (16.4–60.3) (13.8–58.4) (12.2–74.9)
Patient satisfaction rate
 Completely satisfied 70.2% 28.6 19.0% 17.6% 36.8% 56.1%
 Satisfied 22.8% 32.1 19.0% 23.5% 31.6% 25.7%
 Not satisfied 7.0% 39.3 61.9% 58.8% 31.6% 18.1%
 Good + excellent 93.9% 60.7% 38.0% 41.2% 68.4% 81.8%
Economic Changes
 Former job, full time 55.6% 33.9% 40.0% 46.7% 47.6% 48.0%
 Former job, part time 6.8% 14.3% 10.0% 6.7% 4.8% 9.1%
 New job 11.1% 8.9% 5.0% 0% 4.8% 10.3%
 Back to work 73.5% 57.1% 55.0% 53.3% 57.1% 67.4%
 TDR including lumbosacral junction n = 88 (75.2%) n = 51 (87.9%) n = 18 (81.8%) n = 16 (94.1%) n = 20 (95.2%) n = 139 (79.4%)
Level of TDR
 Monosegmental n = 101 (86.3%) n = 46 (79.3%) n = 19 (86.4%) n = 15 (88.2%) n = 16 (76.2%) n = 147 (84%)
  L2/3 2 0 2
  L3/4 0 1 1
  L4/5 3 4 3 1 1 27
  L5/6 3 1 1 4
  L4/S1 1 1 1 2
  L5/S1 72 39 15 14 14 111
 Bisegmental n = 16 (13.9%) n = 11 (19.0%) n = 3 (13.6%) n = 2 (12.5%) n = 5 (23.8%) n = 27 (15.4%)
  L3/4/5 1 1 0 0 2
  L5/6/S1 0 1 0 1 1
  L4/5/S1 15 9 3 2 4 24
 3-segmental    n = 0 (0%) n = 1 (1.7%) n = 0 (0%) n = 1 (0.6%)
  L3/4/5/S1 1 1

TDR Total lumbar disc replacement, FU follow-up