Success after 3 years of suffering

Keano16 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-17-2010, 09:46 AM

Miracle in Croatia... Doctor Robert Saftic, spinal neurosurgeon from neurosurgical clinic Vertebralis returned life to my mother after almost 3 years of suffering.

After traditional discectomy and three minimally-invasive procedures, less invasive version of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) returned life to woman that spent almost 3 years in bed.

Success looks like this:

Kind regards from Croatia.

p.s.
If you are interested in whole story, you can look my link bellow:
Spine surgery in Croatia - A true patient success story

mmglobal · #2 (**permalink**) 06-23-2010, 02:02 AM

Roberto, thanks for posting. I like to see the fusion successes. Too many patients looking for ADR really need a fusion and don't understand that a fusion may represent their best hope. I hope to hear that your mother continues to do well. Please keep us posted.

Mark

PS. I deleted your duplicate post but will put the larger versions of your pictures here. They really show the fusion and the growing fusion mass. The dots on the a/p (front/back) view are radiographic markers put into the cage because it's made of radiolucent materials.

Keano16 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-23-2010, 08:41 AM

Yes, the fusion proces has obviously started. As you can see carbon cage position is not ideal, but this do not influence on the outcome of the surgery.

Maria · #4 (**permalink**) 07-04-2010, 05:18 PM

Keano,
Wishing your Mom the best with continuing recovery and very glad to hear she did so well with her fusion!

My L5S1 has autofused (tho my OSS says there's still enough movement to give me pain at times) and has alleviated a great deal of the pain I used to experience tho I don't know if I can be that hopeful or wait that long for L4 and L3/4 (L5S1 surgery in '89).

So yeah.. it's super great to hear of someone with an excellent fusion result! Long live that success (and of course kudos to the surgical expertise!)!

mmglobal · #5 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 01:27 AM

Roberto, how is your mom doing? I hope the news is good!

Mark

jim77xlh · #6 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 02:53 AM

I've been told that I need a 3 level cervical fusion and told I need to do it as soon as possible to avoid potential permanent nerve damage, and not regain current lost use of my left arm. I was surprised to see Mark's post about sometimes needing fusion instead of ADR. When is this the case? From what I've read, it seems that ADR is always preferable. My surgeon is "annoyed" that I cancelled the fusion surgery scheduled for September 7th and just gave me a hard sell this morning in his office. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Jim

Keano16 · #7 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmglobal

Roberto, how is your mom doing? I hope the news is good!

Mark

Hi, she is doing pretty fine. We made follow-up MRI and X-Ray last month and images look great. Of course, considering how many surgeries and trauma she had, her spine does not look like my own.

She has some strange left leg and left lower-back pain. We believe its caused by left screw and we plan to diagnose that with intraforaminal infiltration in left side at left screw site.

Thanks for asking, all best.