Barunseang Hospital lists papers on spinal fusion as an SCI-level international academic journal

Nov 25, 2024

Barunseang Hospital (Hospital Director Seo Dong-won) announced that Park Jae-hyun (a neurosurgeon) of the spine center's lumbar surgery team has been listed in the U.S. Clinical Spinning Surgery journal, SCIE.

This paper is a clinical technique for spinal fusion (Anterior Column Support With Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Cage Through Posterological Report)" jointly studied by Barunsang Hospital's spinal cord center and Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital's spinal neurosurgery.

Our body's vertebrae have their own S-line vertebral bends on the side, and when the unique vertebral bends are damaged for various reasons such as regression, trauma, infection, and tumor, various pain and neurological functional abnormalities occur. To treat this surgically, spinal fusion is performed to normalize spinal flexion (mainly prenatal). Spinal fusion at the waist includes anterior and posterior spines, and there are cages used for fusion, and the forward vertebrae are more effective than the posterior vertebrae to reproduce the unique vertebral flexion.



However, there is a slight risk of surgery compared to the posterior perfusion method because abdominal blood vessels, ureter damage, and men may experience abnormalities in reproductive function because the anterior perfusion method must pass through the abdomen. Therefore, general spinal fusion is mainly performed using the posterior spinal fusion method, and anterior fusion is mainly performed for spinal deformation surgery.

In response, the joint research team presented a paper summarizing various problems to be noted before and after surgery and solutions based on the surgical experience of 51 patients who applied the vertebrae used in the front to the posterior navigation method.



Through the paper, it was confirmed that the "clinical technique for spinal fusion using the anterior fusion cage" is advantageous in correcting the normal anterior angle of lumbar spine and effective in preventing degenerative changes at the surgical site after lumbar surgery, and in recognition of its significance, it was adopted in the SCIE Clinical Spinal Surgery.

Director Park Jae-hyun, the lead author of the paper, said "This study is a paper on how to more advantageously correct the recovery of the lumbar frontal angle, which was regrettable during the posterior spinal fusion surgery, and it is judged that it can be one of the ways to prevent adjacent joint deformation that can occur after fusion by applying the method used in bilateral spinal endoscopic lumbar fusion and spinal deformation surgery."We plan to continue the research and publish additional clinical results in the future."



Barunseang Hospital lists papers on spinal fusion as an SCI-level international academic journal





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