ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:The major aim of repair of lumbar spondylolisthesis is to restore and reconstruct the stability of spine sequence, and to relieve compression of herniated disc on nerve root. Pedicle screw system and bone graft fusion become the preferred way to treat spondylolisthesis of most scholars. Most scholars are prone to posterior interbody fusion or posterolateral interbody fusion. OBJECTIVE:To compare the clinical curative effects of posterior autologous iliac bone graft fusion and posterior Cage intervertebral bone graft fusion in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis by observing fusion rate and height of intervertebral loss. METHODS:A total of 61 patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis in Xuancheng Central Hospital from July 2008 to December 2013 were enrol ed in this study. According to the different types of interbody fusion, 37 cases in autologous ilium group received posterior autologous iliac bone graft fusion. 24 cases in the Cage interbody fusion cage group underwent posterior Cage interbody fusion cage fusion. Operation time, blood loss, spondylolisthesis reduction, graft fusion and Japanese Orthopaedic Association score were compared between the two groups. The significance of different fusion manners on prognosis was explored in patients with degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:No significant difference in blood loss was detected between the two groups (P>0.05). However, the operation time was significantly longer in the autologous ilium group than in the Cage interbody fusion cage group (P0.05). Significant difference in the height of intervertebral loss was detectable between the two groups in final fol ow-up (P<0.05). The height of intervertebral loss was better in the Cage interbody fusion cage group than in the autologous ilium group. These findings indicate that two kinds of bone graft fusion manners for lumbar spondylolisthesis obtained good reduction and clinical curative effects, but the height of intervertebral loss was smal in the Cage interbody fusion cage fusion during long-period fol ow-up, and the clinical effect was good.
ABSTRACT
Hannum and colleagues performed DNA methylation sequencing to examine the relationship between DNA methylome and aging rate. Notably, they succeeded in building a quantitative and reproducible model based on the epigenetic bio-markers to predict aging rate with high accuracy. This progress enlightens us in many aspects particularly in applying this novel set of bio-markers on studying the mechanism of aging rate using adult tissue-specific stem cells, building up a potential quantitative model to explore the mechanism for other epigenetic factors like non-coding RNA, and understanding the principle and mechanism of 3D chromatin structure in epigenetic modulation.