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Correlation between diaphragmatic sagittal rotation and pulmonary dysfunction in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Chao Liu¹, Bing Wu², Yue Guo¹

¹1 Department of Orthopaedics, Kowloon Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, PR China.

The Journal of International Medical Research

|February 8, 2019

Abstract

Objective:

This study was performed to investigate the correlation between pulmonary dysfunction patterns and diaphragmatic sagittal rotation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis accompanied by kyphosis.

Methods:

Thirty patients (27 male, 3 female) with kyphotic deformity secondary to ankylosing spondylitis underwent pedicle subtraction osteotomy and were retrospectively reviewed. All patients had undergone preoperative computed tomography with three-dimensional reconstruction, full-length spine radiographs, and pulmonary function tests. The diaphragmatic angle in the median sagittal plane (DA), pulmonary function test results, and radiological parameters were studied.

Results:

Correlation coefficients were used to present the correlation between the DA and pulmonary function and the global kyphosis (GK), respectively. The data analysis presented positive correlations between the DA value and vital capacity (VC), forced vital capacity (FVC), expiratory reserve volume (ERV), inspiratory reserve volume (IRV) and peak expiratory flow (PEF). There was likewise a negative correlation between DA value and the global kyphosis (GK). Additionally, there were further significantly statistical improvements for DA, ERV, IRV, FVC, and VC, PEF, postoperatively.

Conclusions:

Except for the restriction of the chest wall motion and the abnormalities of lung parenchyma, the diaphragmatic sagittal rotation is also an influencing factor of pulmonary dysfunction in patients with ankylosing spondylitis accompanied by kyphosis.

Keywords:

Kyphosis ankylosing spondylitis diaphragm diaphragmatic sagittal rotation osteotomy pulmonary function

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