Table 3. Univariate analysis of 2-year medical and surgical complications following lumbar fusion.
| Outcomes | ALL HIV patients | P value† | Asymptomatic HIV | P value† | AIDS | P value† | Control | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Total | 631 | 502 | 129 | 215,956 | |||||||
| Revision | 11 | 1.74 | 0.8385 | 8§ | 1.59 | 0.695 | 3§ | 2.33 | 0.998 | 4,178 | 1.93 |
| SSI | 28 | 4.44 | 0.4383 | 20 | 3.98 | 0.892 | 10§ | 7.75 | 0.223 | 8,140 | 3.77 |
| Neurological complications | 1§ | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.053 | 1§ | 0.78 | 1 | 2,007 | 0.93 |
| Digestive complications | 1§ | 0.16 | 0.893 | 1§ | 0.20 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 573 | 0.27 |
| Plegia | 2§ | 0.32 | 0.3054 | 1§ | 0.20 | 0.243 | 1§ | 0.78 | 1 | 1,616 | 0.75 |
| Sensory defecit | 39 | 6.18 | 0.881 | 32 | 6.37 | 1 | 7§ | 5.43 | 0.784 | 13,836 | 6.41 |
| Bowel bladder dysfunction | 32 | 5.07 | 0.13 | 22 | 4.38 | 0.051 | 10§ | 7.75 | 0.747 | 14,373 | 6.66 |
| Myelopathies | 1§ | 0.16 | 0.36 | 1§ | 0.20 | 0.535 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.864 | 1,065 | 0.49 |
†, Pearson’s chi-squared test; §, Per HIPAA requirements, <11 cohort sizes are not reportable; *, significance P<0.05; SSI, surgical site infection; arrhythmia with AFIB, arrhythmia without atrial fibrillation; arrhythmia without AFIB, arrhythmia without atrial fibrillation; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; UTI, urinary tract infection; LOS, length of stay.