title: Incidence of adjacent segment degeneration in cervical disc arthroplasty versus anterior cervical decompression and fusion meta-analysis of prospective studies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the incidence of adjacent segment disease (ASD) requiring surgical intervention between anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) and total disc replacement (TDR).
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The concern for ASD has led to the development of motion-preserving technologies such as TDR. However, whether replacement arthroplasty in the spine achieves its primary patient-centered objective of lowering the frequency of adjacent segment degeneration is not verified yet.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comprehensive literature search was performed using PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Embase. These databases were thoroughly searched for prospective randomized studies comparing ACDF and TDR. Eight studies met the inclusion criteria for a meta-analysis and were used to report an overall rate of ASD for both ACDF and TDR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pooling data from 8 prospective studies, the overall sample size at baseline was 1,726 patients (889 in the TDR group and 837 in the ACDF group). The ACDF group had significantly more ASDs compared with the TDR group at 24 months postoperatively [odds ratios (OR), 1.31; 95 % confidence interval (CI), 1.04-1.64; p = 0.02]. The TDR group had significantly fewer adjacent segment reoperations compared with the ACDF group at 24 months postoperatively (OR, 0.49; 95 % CI, 0.25-0.96; p = 0.04).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  For patients with one-level cervical degenerative disc disease (CDDD), total disc replacement was found to have significantly fewer ASDs and reoperations compared with the ACDF. Cervical replacement arthroplasty may be superior to ACDF in ASD. Therefore, cervical arthroplasty is a safe and effective surgical procedure for treating CDDD. We suggest adopting TDR on a large scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Spine Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jiaquan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Department of Spine Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: Department of Spine Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Spine Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Spine Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, People's Republic of China. zxnong@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Xuenong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zou
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery; D019299:Decompression, Surgical / Q000009:adverse effects; D017586:Diskectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000601:surgery; D055959:Intervertebral Disc Degeneration / Q000209:etiology*; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000601:surgery*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013123:Spinal Fusion / Q000009:adverse effects*; D059145:Total Disc Replacement / Q000009:adverse effects*