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Old 10-15-2015, 08:07 AM
Cheryl0331 Cheryl0331 is offline
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Default what they won't tell you though

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Originally Posted by TomN View Post
Thank you Cheryl.
I will send my films to more surgeon over there for sure. What will haunt me is how Dr Watkins said fusion is the safest bet for irritability, and that ADR could quite very well leave me in pain as the cord will still hurt when bending at that segment. He even told me that Bertagnoli will suggest and ADR, and sure enough he did. And he said it will NOT affect the irritability of the spine at that segment. Ugh!
Is how you most likely will develop adjacent level issues. That is instability too. Another reason why I like the M6; as it is more constrained than other ADR's. Things is you can always go to fusion later but not go from fusion to an ADR.
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54 yr old female 5'7" 147 lbs. non-smoker conservative treatments failed
2007 fusion @ C4-6 peek cages, failed due to long term use of cox-2 inhibitor
2008 revised C4-6 donor bone, plate & screws
2009 fusion with Roi-C @ C3-4
2015 MRI & CT mjr ddd @ C6-7, segmental kyphosis at C7-T1, 2-level M6-C prosthesis by Dr. Clavel Barcelona Spain
2019 H.O. formed behind M6-C @ C6-7 left nerve rt & in spinal canal.
2020 Revision C6-7 to a CP-ESP prosthesis by Dr. Schmitz Dusseldorf Germany
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