TABLE 5.
Complications and Revision Further Operations
| Nature of Complication/Revision Operation | Number Cases | Number Revision Operations | ||
| Perioperative | Pulmonary | Atelectasis | 4 | |
| Hemothorax | 2 | 1 | ||
| Pneumonia | 2 | |||
| Pneumothorax | 1 | |||
| GI | Clostridium difficile infection | 1 | ||
| Infection | Superficial wound | 1 | ||
| CSF leak | 2 | 1 | ||
| Prompting revision of tether | Overcorrection (loosening tether) | 5 | 5 | |
| Tether breakage (replaced) | 2 | 2 | ||
| Adding on (extension of tether) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Prompting fusion | Inadequate curve correction with no apparent tether breakage | 3 | 3 | |
| Inadequate correction tethered curve with tether breakage ± fusion of progressive untethered lumbar curve | 2 | 3∗ | ||
| Adding on | 2 | 2 | ||
∗
One case required subsequent revision of fusion for distal junctional failure.