Paper #41: Two Year HRQOL Measures are Similar Between Magnetically-Controlled Growing Rod Patients and Traditional Growing Rod Patients.

Skaggs, David; Akbarnia, Behrooz; Pawelek, Jeff; Matsumoto, Hiroko; St Hilaire, Tricia; Sturm, Peter F; Pérez-Grueso, Francisco Javier Sánchez; Luhmann, Scott et al. · Spine Deform · 2017

prospective_cohort · Level II

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Abstract

Despite having lower HRQoL domain scores pre-operatively, EOS patients treated with magnetically-controlled growing (MCGR) had similar EOSQ-24 domain scores after two years of treatment compared to patients treated with traditional growing rods (TGR).